April 2020
Replacing hydrazine fuel with a greener alternative
...want, without pre-heating. If we were to offer a replacement technology, we needed to make sure we would not just replace hydrazine, but also bring to market a vastly better solution Power must be dedicated to the payload, so power consumption of the...
05 February 2021
Hydrazine might be present on Rhea, new study says
...the surface of Rhea through cracks in the ice shell if an ocean existed below its frozen exterior. Instead, hydrazine monohydrate is favoured as the mysterious compound due to the radiation-dominated chemistry expected to occur on the surface of Rhea...
June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
... all of the available material in a totally different way from its intended use - the production of water from hydrazine (rocket fuel) or the redefinition of a communication protocol with an old probe left on Mars from a previous Pathfinder mission...
April 2020
Reviving Russia’s space programme
... law to permit a breach in its regulations to ship the hydrazine and did so again in 2018 for the second ExoMars probe ...due to fly 2020. The Russians later opened a new hydrazine factory of their own in Nizhny Novgorod. Structural issues In the...
July 2021
Nitrous oxide – a green propellant for commercial space exploration
...’, has been known for many years, but efforts were abandoned due to unsatisfactory results. Applications for hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide propellants featuring higher exploitation specifications excluded nitrous oxide from the running as a rocket...
December 2014
From the green economy to green space
...cent is fuel (often it’s a highly toxic unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine – heptyl – left over from the Cold War), and ...trying, without success so far, to rid itself of toxic hydrazine-heptyl fuel and single-use rockets. ‘Black’, spendthrift technology...
