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To: Red Badger

If memory serves, the batteries powering the Voyager probes have beta-decay ‘batteries’.


10 posted on 03/25/2025 9:24:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv
...batteries powering the Voyager probes..

Voyager 1 and 2, are powered by radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), which convert the heat from the natural radioactive decay of plutonium into electricity. The fuel is Plutonium-238. It is difficult to make . Shortages have led to some missions which would have been ideal with it , like the Titan probe , not using it. (We wait years and years for a probe to get all the way to Saturn, and then use a battery with only a few minutes of use.)

17 posted on 03/26/2025 1:51:54 AM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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