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Artist's concept: AIR is developing dominant tactical autonomy for multi-ship, beyond visual range air combat missions; the technology advances the capability for manned and unmanned combat aerial vehicles to work together. — Artist’s concept: A notional spacecraft with a high-power agile plasma thruster is powered by novel kilowatt-level radiovoltaics (cells that turn radiation directly into electricity). The use of radiovoltaics would enable space vehicles to travel to highly radioactive regions of space that are inaccessible to spacecraft otherwise powered by delicate solar arrays. Source: DARPA | Alan Clarke

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Artist’s concept: A notional spacecraft with a high-power agile plasma thruster is powered by novel kilowatt-level radiovoltaics (cells that turn radiation directly into electricity). The use of radiovoltaics would enable space vehicles to travel to highly radioactive regions of space that are inaccessible to spacecraft otherwise powered by delicate solar arrays.
Credit: DARPA | Alan Clarke
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Date: June 23, 2025
Program: Rads to Watts

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