slide 1 - This artist’s concept shows NASA’s Voyager spacecraft against a backdrop of stars.

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NASA Celebrates 45 Years of Voyager 1, Enabled by Radioisotope Power

Radioisotope Power Enables 45 Years of Discovery on Voyager 1 Read More ›

slide 2 - NASA engineer looks through the Microsoft HoloLens to see the spacecrafts the students designed.

NASA Uses Technology to Give Students an Out-of-this-World Experience

ANNIVERSARY

Voyager, NASA's Longest-Lived Mission, Logs 45 Years in Space

Launched in 1977, the twin Voyager probes are NASA’s longest-operating mission and the only spacecraft ever to explore interstellar space. Read More ›

slide 4 - Martian landscape with rolling hills

Anniversary

10 Years Since Landing, NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Still Has Drive

Powered by a Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator, Curiosity has driven nearly 18 miles (29 kilometers) as it explores Gale Crater. Curiosity’s mission was recently extended for another three years. Read More ›

slide 5 - Members of the winning paper at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland.

Silicon-Germanium Unicouple Paper Wins Best Radioisotope Power Paper Award

NASA’s Radioisotope Power Systems Program’s sponsored a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) that won the American Nuclear Society’s 2022 Best Radioisotope Power Paper award Read More ›

ANNIVERSARY

NASA Celebrates 45 Years of Voyager 1, Enabled by Radioisotope Power

NASA Uses Technology to Give Students an Out-of-this-World Experience

ANNIVERSARY

Voyager, NASA's Longest-Lived Mission, Logs 45 Years in Space

Anniversary

10 Years Since Landing, NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Still Has Drive

Silicon-Germanium Unicouple Paper Wins Best Radioisotope Power Paper Award

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