View Single Post
  #8  
Old November 15th 14, 10:59 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
[email protected]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 9,472
Default Solar power hobbles another spacecraft? (The comet lander crippled)

On Friday, November 14, 2014 7:18:21 PM UTC-5, RichA wrote:


You can use other isotopes. Strontium, Polonium, Americium. The Russians used
$10M worth or Polonium to kill that dissident, they could have spared some.


OK then, what would a Po RTG look like for a 10-year mission?