NASA, US Navy and Air Force have conducted over 27 space missions utilising radioistope power systems and radioisotope heater units in partnership with the Department of Energy.
Mission | Year | Agency | Regions |
Transit 4a | 1961 | Navy | Earth- Navy Navigation Satelitte |
Transit 4B | 1961 | Navy | Earth – Navigation Satelitte |
Transit 5-BN-1 | 1963 | Navy | Earth – Navigation Satelitte |
Transit 5-BN-2 | 1963 | Navy | Earth – Navigation Satelitte |
Nimbus III | 1969 | NASA | Earth – Weather Satelitte |
Apollo 11 | 1969 | NASA | Moon Surface |
Apollo 12 | 1969 | NASA | Moon Surface |
Apollo 14 | 1971 | NASA | Moon Surface |
Apollo 15 | 1971 | NASA | Moon Surface |
Pioneer 10 | 1971 | NASA | Jupiter |
Apollo 16 | 1972 | NASA | Moon Surface |
Triad-01-1X | 1972 | Navy | Earth – Navigation Satelitte |
Apollo 17 | 1972 | NASA | Moon Surface |
Pioneer 11 | 1973 | NASA | Jupiter, Saturn |
Viking 1 | 1975 | NASA | Mars Surface |
Viking 2 | 1975 | NASA | Mars Surface |
Lincoln Experimental Satelitte 8 | 1976 | Air Force | Earth – Communications Satellite |
Lincoln Experimental Satelitte 9 | 1976 | Air Force | Earth – Communications Satellite |
Voyager 2 | 1977 | NASA | Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Interstellar Space |
Voyager 1 | 1977 | NASA | Jupiter, Saturn, Interstellar Space |
Galileo | 1989 | NASA | Venus, Asteroid Belt, Jupiter |
Ulysses | 1990 | NASA | Jupiter, Sun, Comets |
Pathfinder-Sojourner | 1996 | NASA | Mars Surface |
Cassini-Huygens | 1997 | NASA | Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Titan |
Pluto New Horizons | 2006 | NASA | Jupiter, Pluto, Kuiper Belt |
Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity | 2011 | NASA | Mars Surface |