Improving Solar Cell Efficiency Enables NASA's Solar-Powered Jupiter Probe
Credit: NASA/JPL ARTIST'S CONCEPT
Budget and technical realities have led NASA to put its once-ambitious space nuclear power plans on a slow track, but developments in solar power generation should allow new scientific probes beyond Mars to operate without nuclear energy. The U.S. space agency is already planning a solar-powered...
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