Zeno RHU will aim to survive lunar night

As established by a commercial payload agreement, a radioisotope heating unit (RHU) developed by Zeno Power will be onboard one of Firefly Aerospace’s existing Blue Ghost missions to the near side of the moon as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services, the companies announced yesterday. Zeno, which has already been working on an americium-241–fueled radioisotope power system for Harmonia…