RPS strategies to enable NASA's next decade robotic Mars missions

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 992-1001

  Balint, Tibor S ^a   Jordan, James F ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; NASA; RADIOISOTOPES; ROBOTICS; SPACE RESEARCH; THERMOELECTRICITY;

MARS MISSIONS; RADIOISOTOPE HEAT UNIT (RHU); RADIOISOTOPE POWER SYSTEMS (RPS); STIRLING RADIOISOTOPE GENERATORS (SRG);

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33947273162     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2006.12.003     Document Type: Article

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