August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... interesting, alternative approach to interstellar travel is to keep the fuel on Earth and ‘beam’ the energy to a spacecraft. This..., alternative approach to interstellar travel is to keep the fuel on Earth and ‘beam’ the energy to a spacecraft...
February 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
.... The current iteration of this design, Skylon D1, under development at Reaction Engines in the UK, requires 77 tonnes of liquid hydrogen fuel to carry a 15-tonne payload module into orbit. Optimised for passengers, the 200 cubic metre volume would...
21 November 2019
Orbex opens doors to Europe’s most modern rocket factory
... bond solidly. In just a few hours, these machines can process large rocket parts, such as main stage fuel tanks, to create a strong and reliable structure that is ready for the extremes of space. Some of these carbon...
June 2015
The book of flight
..., and the pilot can send data back too, for example, fuel orders or technical reports in real-time if they have a satellite... ground services. For example, making sure the fuel guy knows how much fuel the aircraft needs before it even arrives, so...
August 2018
Flying to the stars
... fusion (ICF). ICF is based on rapidly compressing spherical fuel pellets, for example, made out of deuterium and tritium,...) needs to be as high as possible to avoid part of the fuel simply being lost. Also, the pellets need to be fused in quick...
March 2019
The changing economics of space
...satisfactorily. The spacecraft could merely have run out of fuel. At this point, the orbit will degrade because ...are then either left in orbit to drift aimlessly or any remaining fuel is used to deorbit them. But recent estimates put the proportion ...
