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Article #7917Re: Payload of shuttle flight directly after last Challenger.
From: 0000-Mike Bird
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1988 13:06
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1988 13:06
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In article <1988Feb3.133415.12432@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: > [stuff deleted ] ... there is just no other satisfactory >way of powering outer-planet missions -- there isn't enough sunlight out >there for solar panels. >The US has put one reactor into space, although not recently. The Soviet >Union routinely uses small reactors to power its military radarsats. >Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology I was under the impression that the experiment packages left up on the moon by the manned Apollo shots used a small Pu-powered nuclear reactor as their power source. I seem to remember a small, black, cylindrical device with radiating fins as the center imstrument deployments. Can anyone else confirm or deny this? -- ================================================================================ Mike Bird (These opinions are mine, dammit!) Mail paths: bird@kksys.UUCP -or- Void where prohibited by law. ...rutgers!meccts!kksys!bird
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!uwvax!umn-d-ub!umn-cs!ems!rosevax!kksys!bird From: bird@kksys.UUCP (0000-Mike Bird) Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Payload of shuttle flight directly after last Challenger. Summary: Apollo moon shots used nuclear reactors, didn't they? Message-ID: <572@kksys.UUCP> Date: 6 Feb 88 13:06:07 GMT References: <347@flatline.UUCP> <1988Feb3.133415.12432@utzoo.uucp> Reply-To: bird@kksys.UUCP (0000-Mike Bird) Organization: K and K Systems, Minneapolis Lines: 17 Posted: Sat Feb 6 07:06:07 1988