Radioisotope Power Systems

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This NASA webpage discusses radioisotope power systems in past, present, and future space missions. It also discusses some of the successes that the radioisotopes have had on satellite missions. The webpage also includes a timeline of past missions and their accomplishments.

This site also has links to other areas of the NASA Solar System page. In these links, there are videos that explain some of the instrumentation, and some of the major accomplishments of various missions. The site includes an interactive 3-D simulation that allows users go explore the solar system and learn about past satellite missions.

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/rps/home.cfm

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Astronomy - Space Exploration	- High School - Lower Undergraduate	- Instructional Material = Simulation - Reference Material = Article - Audio/Visual = Graph = Image/Image Set = Movie/Animation = Photograph

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: Does not have a copyright, license, or other use restriction.
Keywords:: Apollo, Cassini, Cassini-Huygens, Galileo, New Horizons, Nimbus, Pioneer, Ulysses, Viking, Voyager, radioisotope, solar system
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created June 13, 2012 by Zachary Davis
Record Updated:: June 19, 2012 by Ed Lee
Last Update when Cataloged:: January 16, 2012
Other Collections:: The Physics To Go

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Radioisotope Power Systems:

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