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NASA's Dragonfly mission will send a nuclear-powered flying drone to Titan
- JumpCrisscross 7mo ago"...our robotic proxies can endure the chill and make the trip, and, as it happens, we humans are getting pretty good at making these machines." I wonder at what point personal robotic proxies into the solar system becomes a <$10k proposition.
- jerlam 7mo agoBy "nuclear battery" do they just mean the same kind of battery we've been using in spacecraft for over 70 years? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...