Intuitive Machines Selects Heat Source for Radioisotope Power System

Working Under an AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate Contract

Oct 28, 2024

∙ Paid

The Cobalt-60 (Co-60) heat source from Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) has been selected by Intuitive Machines for their Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate (“AFRL/RV”) Joint Emergent Technology Supplying On-Orbit Nuclear Power (“JETSON”) Low-power (“LP”) Mission Application contract.

“The use of a non-Pu-238 radioisotope (“Co-…

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