«The physics of separating spins with heat currents is related to the operation of thermocouples and the thermoelectric generators that
power deep space probes.
Almost three years after NASA's New
Horizons deep space probe made its historic flyby of Pluto, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has released the first list of official names for features on the face of the dwarf planet's largest moon, Charon.
Something odd happened a few months after NASA's
deep space probe New Horizons was launched Jan. 19, 2006 — its target got demoted from a planet to a «dwarf planet.»
On Sunday, the space agency uploaded the update into the
veteran deep space probe's computers where it will remain stored in memory until a scheduled restart on April 16.
And for decades since, images and data from satellites, Mars rovers, space telescopes and
deep space probes bring the universe down to Earth.
As NASA's Voyager 1 and 2
unmanned deep space probes head out of the Solar System, they are in territory that is the very definition of «uncharted.»
Provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, such RTG's have been included on many
past deep space probes such as the Cassini mission to Saturn, the Galileo orbiter of Jupiter, and the Voyager craft now on their way out of the solar system.
Plus, there is now additional funding, $ 15 million, for the production of Plutonium - 238, which is used to
power deep space probes.
The cold war plutonium reserves that fuel NASA's
deep space probes are running low.
The deep space probe Discovery moves languidly through the black, empty sea of space.