However, NASA isn’t ready to say goodbye just yet, and is taking measures to get as much life out of the pair as possible. On ...

Voyager 1 — launched in 1977 and now over 15.6 billion miles from Earth — started out with 10 science instruments, but now ...

Beginning in the late 1950s, the U.S. met this challenge by developing nuclear batteries known as radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) and producing plutonium-238 (Pu-238) as their fuel, ...

Thermoelectric devices—including the radioisotope thermoelectric generators that produce energy for NASA's space exploration vehicles—can convert differences in temperature to electricity.

NASA has already had to be extremely conservative with the available power. The radioisotope thermoelectric generators, which use radioactively decaying plutonium-238 isotopes as a direct source ...

Furthermore, TEG serve as autonomous and mobile power sources. They are used as Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTG) for space exploration, Auxiliary Power Units (APU) for military ...

NASA has an update on its seminal deep-space exploration project of 2023—that of developing a nuclear power source. Following promising results in the Phase 1 of the project, the researchers are ...

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