A Radioisotope Stirling Power Unit for Continuous Venus Surface Electricity: Conversion and Radiator Sizing

This study sizes a Radioisotope Stirling Power Unit for Continuous Venus Surface Electricity for operation in the Venus surface environment and reports the result as SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED. The design is developed from stated physical relations and a shared environmental basis, and every performance figure is computed by the deposited script rather than asserted. Among the computed results are hot end temperature of 1023.0 kelvin, Carnot efficiency ceiling of 0.2278 as a fraction, Stirling conversion efficiency of 0.1184 as a fraction, thermal inventory of 4200.0 watts of heat. Mass and power budgets are assembled from components so that they can be audited, off-design behaviour and materials uncertainty are discussed openly, and the limits of the sizing are stated in full. The system is a civilian science and construction design intended for a robotically serviced surface station.