European Space Agency

461 readers

3 users here now

The European Space Agency community

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Buzztiger@feddit.nl

Mars rover mission will use pioneering nuclear power source (www.nature.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Buzztiger@feddit.nl to c/esa@feddit.nl

0 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Can I ask how everyone personally feels about using nuclear material for space exploration? For the rovers heating elements it will be just a couple of grams but for generating electricity via a RTG a spacecraft would require several kilograms of radioactive material.

no comments (yet)

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

there doesn't seem to be anything here