Unlike traditional RHUs, entX’s technology leverages its nuclear engineering skillsets with its existing relationships with global neutron irradiation services to develop and access commercially viable radioisotopes with improved safety profiles.
Mission Lifespan Optionality: The base technology enables lunar night survival for several weeks up to a few months, while the top-tier RHU allows up to 4 years of survivability. With continuous asset availability, entX aims to optimise mission return on investment (ROI) for a range of payload sizes.
Safety Compliance: entX RHU’s radioisotopes fall into the un-tiered categories of the Office of Safety and Mission Assurance’s Nuclear Flight Safety policy1, even for multiple RHUs on a single payload.
Cost-Effective: entX’s platform technology dramatically lowers the mass and costs compared with battery solutions, breaking barriers and enabling multi lunar day missions.
entX’s RHU technology revolutionizes lunar exploration, providing payload designers with flexible, cost-effective options to extend asset lifetimes beyond a single lunar day for several weeks or months to several years.
Further Opportunities
Beyond lunar exploration, additional opportunities arise in Defence applications, particularly in remote heating for autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles operating in cold environments. This advancement provides designers with adaptable and cost-effective solutions to safeguard and extend asset lifetimes in critical environments.
