Morning Bob,
This water fuel sounds interesting.
I know you can seperate water into it's components with electricity as you say. common .
But when water either Boils, evaporates, or in the case of a vacuum, again a somewhat different "Boil" and turns gaseous, is it still H2O or has it broke down into it's components also?
Joe
Robert Bruninga wrote:
Much of the debate on the board here arises from our common desire to see the launching of satellites with a larger footprint.
For what it is worth, this semester I will finally get a student to work on the 40 year old AMSAT idea of a water rocket. (Carry water to orbit and use solar power to electrolizie the wate to H2 and O2 and then burn those in a thruster to raise the orbit of a cubesat.
Mostly the goal is to get from the very low (short lived) LEO to a higher LEO to get longer life, but it will be fun to get this project going again. I had a working model about a dozen years ago, but it eventually blew up.. Now we will get another one built probably...
Bob
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