March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
.... The Planetary Resources website states, ‘In orbit, spacecraft propellant is a multi-billion dollar industry with each pound of fuel worth more than an equivalent pound of gold on Earth. Certain asteroids are loaded with hydrogen and oxygen...
August 2016
Rosetta overcomes major setback
...next 2.5 years. Of course the necessary amount of fuel for the trajectory manoeuvres, the maximum and minimum distance...interplanetary trajectory. This allowed us to save about 180 kg of the fuel we were carrying onboard, so that we could use part of ...
October 2018
Mining the Moon for fun and profit
... of 1100 mT per year. NASA has also expressed an interest in 100mT of propellant per year purchased on the surface to fuel lunar ascent vehicles. Furthermore, assume NASA is willing to invest in the mining operations via a public-private partnership...
May 2019
The inadequacies and dangers of modern rocket technology
...-flight and post-flight factors - for those to obtain fuel and produce detachable and lost sections. It sounds like a... use of rockets and the transition to new types of rocket fuel will not be able to solve these problems because to achieve the...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
...the use of liquid oxygen along with refined kerosene, similar to the fuel mix of the German V2 rockets in World War 2. Oxygen has ... working F1 engine was available - the design of the fuel injector proved to be crucial in enabling the oxygen and ...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
...in the world to the equator, providing up to 30 percent fuel economy compared to other parts of the world and allowing access ... the world to the equator, providing up to 30 percent fuel economy compared to other parts of the world and allowing access ...
