NASA contractor L3Harris Technologies has completed the final design review for a next-generation radioisotope thermoelectric generator designed to power future deep-space missions. The system is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Voyager 1, shown in this illustration, has operated for decades thanks to a radioisotope power system. NASA via AP Powering ...

US technology company L3Harris Technologies announced it has finalised the design of a next-generation nuclear-based power ...

Using low-bandgap III-V materials such as InAsSb in nanostructured arrays to limit potential loss mechanisms, a 25x improvement in mass specific power and ten thousands times decrease in volume from a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ever wonder how a spacecraft millions or even billions of miles from the Sun can keep its lights on? After all, solar panels ...

It's been a quarter century since the US stopped producing plutonium-238, but shrinking worldwide stockpiles and the need for a suitable deep space power source led NASA and the DOE to begin ...

One thing I'd like to see NASA priotize is massively increasing RTG production. We are getting close to long term human exploration of the Moon and Mars, and solar power can't be relied on to provide ...

Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not seem like a challenge, given how intense the Sun’s light can feel on Earth. Spacecraft near the Earth use large solar panels to harness the Sun for the ...

Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not seem like a challenge, given how intense the sun's light can feel on Earth. Spacecraft near the Earth use large solar panels to harness the sun for the ...