Welding isotopic heat sources for the cassini mission to Saturn

Details Welding isotopic heat sources for the cassini mission to Saturn Welding isotopic heat sources for the cassini mission to Saturn

Feb 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995stin...9532367f&link_type=abstract

Presented at the 75th American Welding Society (AWS) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 10-15 Apr. 1994

Physics

Cassini Mission, Heat Sources, Mariner Mark 2 Spacecraft, Radioisotope Batteries, Saturn (Planet), Space Probes, Thermoelectric Generators, Welding, Iridium Alloys, Plutonium 238, Welded Joints

Scientific paper

In 1997 NASA will launch the Cassini scientific probe to the planet Saturn. Electric power for this probe will be provided by Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators thermally driven by General Purpose Heat Source modules. RTGs convert the decay heat of a radioisotope, plutonium 238, into electrical energy. The radioisotope is in the form of sintered pellets of (238)PuO2 which are encapsulated in cylindrical shells of iridium alloy to guard against release to the environment in the event of launch or re-entry accident.

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