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NASA is in a period of frequent launches of low cost deep space missions with challenging performance needs. The modest budgets of these missions make it impossible for each to develop its own technology, therefore, efficient and effective development and insertion of technology for these missions must be approached at a higher level that has been done in the past.
Future small satellite systems for both Earth observation as well as deep-space exploration are greatly enabled by the technological advances in deep sub-micron microelectronics technologies.
The objectives, approach and requirements for developing a space Advanced Radioisotope Power Source (ARPS) are based on potential deep space missions.
From the Sun to Pluto, all by the way of Jupiter. The Outer Planets/Solar Probe (OP/SP) Project first three missions will all visit Jupiter before reaching their destinations of the Sun, the Jupiter moon Europa and the Pluto/Charon system.