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Voyager uses a RTG. The USSR used some full-on nuclear reactors in space, but as far as I know no one else publicly did. Edit: Yep, not sure how I forgot about
by Vecr 2y ago
Voyager uses a RTG. The USSR used some full-on nuclear reactors in space, but as far as I know no one else publicly did.
Edit: Yep, not sure how I forgot about that.
- joeyo 2y agoThe US put a fission reactor in space too. They did it first, in fact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAP-10A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAP-10A Edit: it’s apparently still there and will be for a long time (!) albeit non-functional: > Decay date: April 3, 5966 (planned)