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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.
Michael A. Mitchell, Peter Gobby, Norm Elliott
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 5 | December 1995 | Pages 1844-1848
Technical Paper | Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30423
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) targets occasionally require the presence of diagnostic dopants to facilitate temperature measurements. To this end poly(4-methyl-1-pentene) (PMP or TPX) foams were produced with very low densities (3 to 5 mg/cc) and low levels of diagnostic dopants. The dopants added to the foams were titanium (Ti), chromium (Cr), and manganese (Mn). The transition metal doped foams were produced with metal loadings as high as 1 wt%, and densities between 3 and 5 mg/cc. The average foam densities were determined using β-transmission, and the dopant amounts were determined using x-ray fluorescence. Procedures for doped foam production and measurements of the resulting foam characteristics will be presented.
