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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.
Galina Chabratova, Lars Leistam
Nuclear Technology | Volume 124 | Number 2 | November 1998 | Pages 183-191
Technical Paper | Accelerators | doi.org/10.13182/NT98-A2918
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Estimates are presented of the radiation environment for POINT2 of the Large Hadron Collider, where the ALICE detector is to be located. The radiation environment is studied in terms of two points of accidental beam losses. The dose level in the region of the counting rooms is lower than the recommended CERN limit of 50 mSv. The radiation level behind the access shielding at the air-duct chicane is not higher than 10 mSv; this area is also appropriated for use as a public area. A more complicated situation is in the machine bypass region. The dose level in the tunnel is a few hundred millisieverts, and a decrease of this level could be achieved by increasing the thickness of the wall or the beam pipe shielding.
