Small power technology for tetrahedral rovers

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 813, Issue , 2006, Pages 889-897

  Clark, P E ^a,b   Floyd, S R ^b   Butler, C D ^b   Flom, Y ^b  

^a L3 Communications GSI ^*  (United States)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat pipe; Piezoelectric; Robot; Rover; RTG; Shape memory; Small radioisotope power; TetWalker

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751220836     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2169271     Document Type: Conference Paper

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