Design, Analysis, and Optimization of a Radioisotope Thermophotovoltaic (RTPV) Generator, and its Applicability to an Illustrative Space Mission | Zendy

Alfred Schock | Zendy; Meera Mukunda | Zendy; C. Or | Zendy; V. Kumar | Zendy; G. Summers | Zendy

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Design, Analysis, and Optimization of a Radioisotope Thermophotovoltaic (RTPV) Generator, and its Applicability to an Illustrative Space Mission

Author(s) -

Alfred Schock,

Meera Mukunda,

C. Or,

V. Kumar,

G. Summers

Publication year - 1994

Publication title -

osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Reports

DOI - 10.2172/1033365

Subject(s) - pluto , thermophotovoltaic , stirling engine , planet , aerospace engineering , spacecraft , space exploration , generator (circuit theory) , thermoelectric generator , astrobiology , environmental science , engineering , systems engineering , photovoltaic system , physics , electrical engineering , mechanical engineering , astronomy , thermoelectric effect , power (physics) , quantum mechanics , thermodynamics

Paper presented at the 45th Congress of the IAF in Jerusalem, Israel, October 1994. The paper describes the results of a DOE-sponsored design study of a radioisotope thermophotovoltaic generator (RTPV), to complement similar studies of Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) and Stirling Generators (RSGs) previously published by the authors. To focus the design effort, it was decided to direct it at a specific illustrative space mission, Pluto Fast Flyby (PFF). That mission, under study by the JPL, envisages a direct eight to nine-year flight to Pluto (the only unexplored planet in the solar system), followed by comprehensive mapping, surface composition, and atmospheric structure measurements during a brief flyby of the planet and its moon Charon, and transmission of the recorded science data to Earth during a six-week post-encounter cruise

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