✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading
Zeno Power gets $30 million to build radioisotope-powered satellite for U.S. military - SpaceNews
spacenews.com · 1,049 words · saved by 1 readers
Zeno Power gets $30 million to build radioisotope-powered satellite for U.S. military
WASHINGTON — Zeno Power Systems was awarded a $30 million contract to build a radioisotope-powered satellite for the U.S. Air Force by 2025. The four-year contract is a “strategic funding increase” agreement that provides $15 million in government funds, matched by $15 million from private investors, the company’s co-founder and chief executive Tyler Bernstein told SpaceNews . Zeno, a startup founded in 2018, develops radioisotope power systems (RPS), a type of nuclear energy technology that converts the heat from decaying nuclear materials directly into electricity. Bernstein said the company
Explore this link on the map →related reading
- The Case for Separating Fission from Electricity Production - Austin Vernon's Blogaustinvernon.site
- america-underway-in-space-on-nuclear-power.pdfnasa.gov
- Some interesting open problems in technology | Locklin on sciencescottlocklin.wordpress.com
- Opinion | What One Russian Satellite Tells Us About the Future of Nuclear Warfare - The New York Timesnytimes.com
- Will We Ever Get Fusion Power? - by Brian Potterconstruction-physics.com
- Antares Nuclear: Factory-Produced Fission Microreactors for Strategic Energyantaresindustries.com
- Antaresantaresindustries.com
- Antimatter Development Program – Casey Handmer's blogcaseyhandmer.wordpress.com
- Making Space Lasers Boringarenamag.com
- Investments - Tamarack Globaltamarackglobal.com
- Spacecraft electric propulsion - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Modern arms control verification for the Outer Space Treaty - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientiststhebulletin.org