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Green light for plutonium Pluto probe.(News)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) ...to launch NASA's plutonium-powered Pluto probe Jan. 17...facing the New Horizons spacecraft...Colorado-built Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket...electrical power comes from...radioisotope thermoelectric generator. Because...forwarded it to NASA ...

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