New nuclear heaters use americium-241 to stop spacecraft freezing

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The RTG unit will be used to heat lunar landers and rovers

Commercial operations on the Moon won't just be round-the-clock but round-the-calendar as ispace, inc. and the University of Leicester partner to develop nuclear heaters to allow future landers and rovers to survive the freezing lunar night.

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