Eco-friendly alternatives to fossil fuels are venturing beyond Earth—and into space.
We are fascinated by the hybrid rocket engine which [Ben Krasnow] built and tested in his shop. It is actually using a hollow cylinder of acrylic as the fuel, with gaseous oxygen as an oxidizer.
The video itself is a reaction to some college students in Utah who caused an evacuation when the rocket fuel they were cooking up exploded. [Scott] himself theorizes that the fuel they were ...
Breathing New Air Chinese astronauts claim to have created rocket fuel on board the country's Tiangong space station using a ...
The trials verify that the fuel can survive the harsh environment of a nuclear rocket reactor. Up until now, the main way of propelling spacecraft has been through chemical rockets. To be fair ...
Space is the only place where rocket fuel could be more precious than water. The China Manned Space Agency announced last month that taikonauts on the ongoing Shenzhou-19 mission successfully ...
They have successfully conducted experiments that mimic photosynthesis, converting carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and rocket fuel ingredients. This development is a major step towards long-term ...
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Nuclear rockets could travel to Mars in half the time − but designing the reactors that would power them isn't easywmode=transparent&start=0 Fission ... into special materials that would use fuel more efficiently in these reactors. NASA and the DARPA's Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations ...
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