Well, the Voyager probes used an RTG of similar construction - and Voyager 2 has been going for over 34 years. The rover won't be at full operational status but you can bet we'll be hearing from it for a long, long time.
I'm tempted to attempt to build one to send up and capture footage of the upcoming solar eclipse - normally, the eclipse would be below the horizon, but with a camera at the edge of space...
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