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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.
M. Bittner, A. Meister, D. Ohms, E. Paffrath, D. Rahner, R. Schwierz, D. Seeliger, K. Wiesener, P. Wüstner
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 18 | Number 1 | August 1990 | Pages 120-130
Technical Note | Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29237
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A method for studying deuterium-deuterium fusion neutron production in condensed matter together with experimental results are presented. The method is based on long-term measurements for comparison among different cells with electrolytically charged palladium cylinders and background. The statistical method used for data reduction is presented, which enables identification of even very small effects. In the experiment, for an ∼100-h period an excess counting rate of ∼3 count/h (averaged for this period) above the background level was found.
