Saturday, December 16, 2017

Could NASA probe Voyager 1 be the last? World running out of plutonium to power spacecraft | Science | News

Plutonium-238 is the essential radioactive isotope powering the planet’s spacecraft from the two Voyager craft, the Mars Rover, the Pioneer spacecraft and more recently the Cassini Saturn probe, New Horizons Pluto launch.
But the world has almost run out with one official suggesting there is...

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