For more than five decades, Radioisotope Power Systems (RPS) have played a critical role in the exploration of space, enabling missions of scientific discovery to destinations across the solar system by providing electrical power to explore remote and challenging environments - some of the hardest to reach, darkest, and coldest locations in the solar system. In particular, RPS has met the demand of many long-duration mission concepts for continuous power to conduct science investigations independent of change in sunlight or variations in surface conditions like shadows, thick clouds, or dust.


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    Title :

    Enabling Future Low-Cost Small Spacecraft Mission Concepts Using Small Radioisotope Power Systems


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Conference on Space Operations (SpaceOps 2014) ; 2014 ; Pasadena, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    2014-05-05


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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