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Dragonfly, a Pu-fueled drone heading to Titan, gets key NASA approval
Curiosity landed on Mars sporting a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) in 2012, and a second NASA rover, Perseverance, landed in 2021. Both are still rolling across the red planet in the name of science. Another exploratory craft with a similar plutonium-238–fueled RTG but a very different mission—to fly between multiple test sites on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon—recently got one step closer to deployment.
On April 25, NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) announced that the Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s icy moon passed its critical design review. “Passing this mission milestone means that Dragonfly’s mission design, fabrication, integration, and test plans are all approved, and the mission can now turn its attention to the construction of the spacecraft itself,” according to NASA.
E. B. Hooper, Jr., Richard H. Bulmer, Larry L. Higgins
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 13 | Number 3 | March 1988 | Pages 503-509
Technical Paper | Alpha-Particle Workshop / Magnet System | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25128
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Magnet alignment in the Mirror Fusion Test Facility-B (MFTF-B) tandem mirror has been measured by electron beams propagated along the axis. A least-squares fit to the data has been obtained by use of singular-value decomposition techniques. This fit determines the positions of the magnets that sensitively effect displacements of the field lines from alignment and, thus, the net geodesic curvature that drives radial transport. The magnets are determined to be aligned accurately enough that the MFTF-B trim coils can correct the field errors and reduce the neoclassical radial transport to an acceptable value.