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Fission Surface Power Technology Demonstration Unit
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NASA Glenn Technician Mark Springowski works on a 10-kilowatt Stirling Power Conversion Unit, which is part of the Fission Surface Power Technology Demonstration Unit. This is a system level demonstration of a surface power system, which could potentially be used to support manned missions to the moon or Mars. A flight system would use 180 kilowatt nuclear fission reactor and four Stirling PCU’s to produce 40 kW of electricity for manned surface missions.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineFission Surface Power Technology Demonstration Unit. NASA/GRC, 2016-11-09. Public domain. ID: GRC-2015-C-06315.
