cover of episode Pioneer Spacecraft Warmth Takes Heat off Relativity

Pioneer Spacecraft Warmth Takes Heat off Relativity

2012/7/23
logo of podcast 60-Second Space

60-Second Space

Shownotes Transcript

The tiny slowing of the two Pioneer spacecraft, known as the Pioneer anomaly and considered by some to challenge general relativity, is probably due to the heat produced by electronics and radioactive decay. John Matson reports