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re: ? MER's Are Solar Powered Not Nuclear Powered

Chris Vancil — 4/28/2005 10:04:21 PM (archived)

Yes, a little known fact. RHU are used in some spacecraft.

I pointed this out to the anti-Cassini crowd and suggested if they were really seriously about being against radioactive material sent into space they should protest the MERs as well.

I don't know if they took my advise, but they did protest....all five or six of them...it being just ounces of material kind of lowers the level of interest...

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• Some gossip about Prometheus / JIMO - Gary - 4/26/2005 4:15:56 AM
  • I hate to be a wet blanket... - R.L. - 4/26/2005 5:24:19 AM
    • Wasn't much of a fight. (n/t) - alcaray - 4/26/2005 8:04:14 PM
      • NASA spent heaps of money to preempt the anti-Cassini bozos - Gary - 4/27/2005 5:58:39 AM
        • re: federal door stop factories - dtb - 4/27/2005 1:20:04 PM
        • re: federal door stop factories - dtb - 4/27/2005 1:20:01 PM
    • The best flagship mission for Prometheus... - Buck Galaxy - 4/26/2005 5:09:50 PM
      • Exactly. I posted a similar proposal, months ago. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 4/27/2005 6:00:29 PM
    • re: I hate to be a wet blanket... - Keith Cowing - 4/26/2005 5:47:23 AM
      • re: I hate to be a wet blanket... - dtb - 4/26/2005 1:19:22 PM
        • Trust me- I have seen it happen - R.L. - 4/27/2005 5:54:50 AM
          • re: Trust me- I have seen it happen - Keith Cowing - 4/27/2005 1:46:33 PM
        • I don't know... - Tom Brosz - 4/26/2005 4:23:43 PM
        • Prometheus is political - Gary - 4/26/2005 3:42:58 PM
          • PR and a little pork barrel for the nuclear power industry - pwokenyaw - 4/27/2005 3:28:21 AM
            • re: both seem plausible - dtb - 4/27/2005 1:15:02 PM
          • re: Prometheus is political - McFly - 4/27/2005 2:59:54 AM
        • re: I hate to be a wet blanket... - pwokenyaw - 4/26/2005 3:22:34 PM
          • re: I hate to be a wet blanket... - Chris Vancil - 4/26/2005 11:44:22 PM
            • ? MER's Are Solar Powered Not Nuclear Powered - Mark Eby - 4/28/2005 2:03:07 AM
              • re: ? MER's Are Solar Powered Not Nuclear Powered - keith Cowing - 4/28/2005 2:22:23 AM
                • re: ? MER's Are Solar Powered Not Nuclear Powered - Chris Vancil - 4/28/2005 10:04:21 PM
                  • MERs and New Horizons - pwokenyaw - 4/29/2005 5:18:59 PM
                    • re: MERs and New Horizons - Chris Vancil - 4/29/2005 9:20:10 PM
                  • Sorry Chris, Thanks Keith - Mark Eby - 4/29/2005 1:58:38 AM
                    • Actually there are other radioactive... - Chris Vancil - 4/30/2005 1:22:15 AM
                    • Actually there are other radioactive... - Chris Vancil - 4/30/2005 1:22:11 AM
            • re: I hate to be a wet blanket... - pwokenyaw - 4/27/2005 3:30:28 AM