Supplying radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTG) to American space missions became very complex. The process is marred by many obstacles: high cost, lack of new developments, difficult launch approval and NEPA compliance. At the same time there are many ambitious space missions for which an RTG would indisputably be the lightest, smallest and most robust power source. An American delegation investigated status of RTG production in Russia to decide if our product line could be supplemented by the Russian designs.


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    Title :

    A Survey of Current Russion RTG Capabilities


    Contributors:
    Chmielewski, A. (author) / Borshchevsky, A. (author) / Lange, R. (author) / Cook, B. (author)

    Publication date :

    1994-08-09


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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