{"id":31015,"date":"2016-10-14T01:46:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T08:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/no-extension-cord-is-long-enough-to-reach-another-planet-and-theres-no-spacecraft-charging-station-along-the-way"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:22:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:22:23","slug":"no-extension-cord-is-long-enough-to-reach-another-planet-and-theres-no-spacecraft-charging-station-along-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/no-extension-cord-is-long-enough-to-reach-another-planet-and-theres-no-spacecraft-charging-station-along-the-way","title":{"rendered":"No extension cord is long enough to reach another planet, and there\u2019s no spacecraft charging station along the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/47UotH8-9VU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why researchers are hard at work on ways to make spacecraft power systems more efficient, resilient and long-lasting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNASA needs reliable long-term power systems to advance exploration of the solar system,\u201d said Jean-Pierre Fleurial, supervisor for the thermal energy conversion research and advancement group at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. \u201cThis is particularly important for the outer planets, where the intensity of sunlight is only a few percent as strong as it is in Earth orbit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A cutting-edge development in spacecraft power systems is a class of materials with an unfamiliar name: skutterudites (skut-ta-RU-dites). Researchers are studying the use of these advanced materials in a proposed next-generation power system called an eMMRTG, which stands for Enhanced Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.php?feature=6646\">http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.php?feature=6646<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s why researchers are hard at work on ways to make spacecraft power systems more efficient, resilient and long-lasting. \u201cNASA needs reliable long-term power systems to advance exploration of the solar system,\u201d said Jean-Pierre Fleurial, supervisor for the thermal energy conversion research and advancement group at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. \u201cThis is particularly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60070,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31015\/revisions\/60070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}