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RTGs had been used for years in planetary exploration without mishap: the Lincoln Experimental Satellites 8 / 9, launched by the U. S. Department of Defense, had 7 % more plutonium on board than Galileo, and the two Voyager spacecraft each carried 80 % as much plutonium as Galileo did.
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Also, no RTGs had ever been made to swing past the Earth at close range and high speed, as Galileo's Venus-Earth-Earth Gravity Assist trajectory required it to do.
Each station had a Station Data Processing Unit ( SDPI ) for controlling station operations, tellecommunications unit with a transmitter and a receiver for data transfer, and a power supply consisting of two radio-isotope thermoelectric generators ( RTGs ), a battery, and electronics for controlling battery charge.
It also had radioisotope thermoelectric generators ( RTGs ) mounted close to the spacecraft body, radiating kilowatts of heat in hard-to-predict directions.
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RTGs have been used as power sources in satellites, space probes and unmanned remote facilities, such as a series of lighthouses built by the former Soviet Union inside the Arctic Circle.
The spacecraft was to have been a simple hexagonal prism shaped structure weighing some 220 kg, powered by radioisotope thermal generators ( RTGs ) similar to those used on the Galileo and Cassini missions.
Radiothermal generators ( RTGs ) which use such radioisotopes as fuels do not sustain a nuclear chain reaction, but rather generate electricity from the decay of a radioisotope which has ( in turn ) been produced on Earth as a concentrated power source ( fuel ) using energy from an Earth-based nuclear reactor.
Gas leaks, including helium from the spacecrafts ' radioisotope thermoelectric generators ( RTGs ) have been viewed as possible causes.
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RTGs were used at that site until 1995.
RTGs were used to power the two Viking landers and for the scientific experiments left on the Moon by the crews of Apollo 12 through 17 ( SNAP 27s ).
RTGs were also used for the Nimbus, Transit and LES satellites.
In the past, small " plutonium cells " ( very small < sup > 238 </ sup > Pu-powered RTGs ) were used in implanted heart pacemakers to ensure a very long " battery life ".
This configuration is thought to be less risky than the radioisotope thermoelectric generators ( RTGs ) used on previous missions to the outer Solar System.
These GPHSes can be used individually or in groups of up to eighteen for component heating and sources for RTGs.
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RTGs are usually the most desirable power source for robotic or unmaintained situations needing a few hundred watts ( or less ) of power for durations too long for fuel cells, batteries, or generators to provide economically, and in places where solar cells are not practical.
The United States Air Force uses RTGs to power remote sensing stations for Top-ROCC and Save-Igloo radar systems predominantly located in Alaska.
The higher-orbiting TOPAZ-containing satellites were the major source of orbital contamination for satellites that sensed gamma-rays for astronomical and security purposes, as radioisotope thermoelectric generators ( RTGs ) do not generate significant gamma radiation as compared with unshielded satellite fission reactors, and all of the BES-5-containing spacecraft orbited too low to cause positron-pollution in the magnetosphere.
Most lunar and Martian surface probes use RHUs for heat, including many probes that use solar panels rather than RTGs to generate electricity.
The Cassini – Huygens spacecraft at Saturn contains eighty-two of these units ( in addition to three main RTGs for power generation ).
The three RTGs were transported from Fort Wainwright, AK to the Richland Consolidation Facility at Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state for disposal.
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While both RHUs and RTGs use the decay heat of a radioactive isotope ( usually Pu-238 ), RHUs are generally much smaller as a result of omitting the thermocouples and heat sinks / radiators required to generate electricity from heat.
All three RTGs were removed from the rock in 1995 in a joint Army / Navy operation with Chinook helicopters from
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RTGs were developed in the US during the late 1950s by Mound Laboratories in Miamisburg, Ohio under contract with the United States Atomic Energy Commission.
One of the first terrestrial uses of RTGs was in 1966 by the US Navy at uninhabited Fairway Rock in Alaska.
In addition to spacecraft, the Soviet Union constructed many unmanned lighthouses and navigation beacons powered by RTGs.
The RTGs were well loved by the public and it is with regret and nostalgia that the Turbotrain was replaced by Corail trains.
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The RTGs powered the spacecraft through the radioactive decay of plutonium-238.
The RTGs produced about 570 watts at launch.
As the launch of Galileo neared, anti-nuclear groups, concerned over what they perceived as an unacceptable risk to the public's safety from Galileo's RTGs, sought a court injunction prohibiting Galileo's launch.
Current interplanetary spacecraft power systems ( such as radioisotope thermoelectric generators ( RTGs )) and solar arrays are incapable of producing that much power.
The three radioisotope thermoelectric generators ( RTGs ) are mounted end-to-end on the lower boom.
Safe use of RTGs requires containment of the radioisotopes long after the productive life of the unit.
There are approximately 1, 000 such RTGs in Russia.
Some of them have become the prey of metal hunters, who strip the RTGs ' metal casings, regardless of the risk of radioactive contamination.
RTGs and more
* Increased power generation compared to RTGs, allowing scientists and engineers more flexibility in both mission design and operations.
RTGs and two
The solution adopted consisted of two radioisotope thermoelectric generators ( RTGs ).
In 1981 two additional RTGs were added.
RTGs and spacecraft
Inspection of Cassini-Huygens | Cassini spacecraft RTGs before launch
Possibilities include the asymmetrical radiation of heat from the RTGs ( See Radioisotope rocket ) or the spacecraft electronics.
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