NASA Develops Batteries to Power Humanity's Return to Moon

NASA explains how it's making batteries for the Moon's extreme temperatures

Lithium-ion just isn't cut out for the cosmos.

NASA battery survives -274°F cold in test for future Moon missions

NASA's solid-state battery survives −274°F cold and operates at −112°F in tests for future Moon missions.

NASA Develops Batteries to Power Humanity's Return to Moon

If you’ve ever had your car start sluggishly, or not at all, on a particularly frigid winter morning, you know standard batteries do not like extreme cold. That’s why NASA researchers are working to develop a battery that could function in the brutal cold of the Moon’s South Pole, where nighttime temperatures plunge to minus […]