June 2017
Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets
..., to be inserted in to an orbit a spacecraft needs to be slowed down, therefore a lot of fuel needs to be carried for the manoeuvres – in fact going to Mercury requires more fuel than going to Pluto! Even if engineers were able to stabilise a Mercury...
07 March 2018
World's first firing for ESA's air-breathing electric thruster
...up air molecules from the top of the atmosphere to use as fuel. The technology is set to pave the way for how future ...team set about finding a way to continually replenish the onboard fuel and thus keep the satellite working. “This project began with...
19 June 2017
"The most efficient rocket engine in the world" to be launched by ARCA
... the rocket. The company also advised that “the type of fuel tanks that will be installed in the Haas 2CA SSTO Rocket ... level all the way to space, meaning it needs significantly less fuel than current engines – up to 30 percent less. The engine ...
15 June 2018
Company aims to reach orbit with spinning rocket
...traditional chemical rocket propulsion, such as kerosene and other fossil fuel derivatives, to get its vehicles off the ground. "...wind [eliminate] the use of toxic and dangerous rocket fuels." Nonetheless, how exactly the technology works and how much...
05 February 2021
Hydrazine might be present on Rhea, new study says
...ringed planet, could be hydrazine; a chemical often used as rocket fuel. The Cassini mission to Saturn was one of NASA’s most ...thus the signal is believed to not arise from spacecraft fuel.” Hydrazine could also be drifting over from Titan, another...
March 2017
Growing plastic-producing bacteria in space
... staying healthy. To support one astronaut for one year in Earth orbit requires around 8000 kg of supplies, excluding fuel. With a current absolute minimum estimated price of US$6600 per kg sent to Mars it is obviously necessary to reduce the weight...
