How do you provide power to a spacecraft wandering the solar system? In the early days of space exploration, batteries were the first option. Sputnik 1 with its famous beep-beep was powered by silver-zinc batteries that lasted for a little…
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Hurray For Plutonium!
Wait a minute! Isn’t plutonium that nasty stuff they make bombs from? Radioactive? The stuff Doc Brown stole from Libyans to fuel the Back to the Future DeLorean time machine? Well, yes…but there’s more to it than that. Plutonium exists…
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