| Autor: |
Bennett, Gary L., Lombardo, James J., Hemler, Richard J., Silverman, Gil, Whitmore, C. W., Amos, Wayne R., Johnson, E. W., Zocher, Roy W., Hagan, James C., Englehart, Richard W. |
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AIP Conference Proceedings; 1/21/2008, Vol. 969 Issue 1, p663-671, 9p, 5 Diagrams |
| Abstrakt: |
The General-Purpose Heat Source Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (GPHS-RTG) was developed for the originally planned International Solar Polar Mission (ISPM). [ISPM would later, with the elimination of the NASA spacecraft, become the Ulysses mission.] At 300 We beginning-of-life (BOL) power, the GPHS-RTG was the most powerful RTG with the highest specific power (5.3 We/kg) of any space RTG. These improved performance attributes of the GPHS-RTG made it attractive for use on the Galileo mission. Subsequently, the GPHS-RTG was selected to power the Cassini spacecraft, which is currently orbiting Saturn, and the New Horizons spacecraft which is on its way to Pluto. Truly, the GPHS-RTG is a “general-purpose” space RTG. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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