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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.
J. Koonce, H. Yoshida, O. Kveton, H. Horikiri, R. Haange
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 630-635
Tritium Processing | Proceedings of the Fifth Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion, and Isotopic Applications Belgirate, Italy May 28-June 3, 1995 | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30474
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The Tritium Plant design for the ITER Engineering Design Activity (EDA) phase is based on the results of almost 20 years of development effort in support of tritium processing and handling as part of the fusion energy program. During this period there have been many evaluations, investigations, and proposals for tritium processing. This paper presents an overview of the planned design for Torus Exhaust Processing and Hydrogen Storage Systems, including plant layout, and equipment arrangements. Process selection and system design are based on using proven technologies, where available, with emphasis on safety, practical application, reliability, and minimization of tritium inventory. The basis for selection of permeation, instead of the Conceptual Design [1] cryogenic sorption, for initial separation of hydrogen from impurities is highlighted. The importance of continuing and future development activities, including demonstration of the integrated exhaust processing system is also presented.