Stamau123@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoRocket lifts off with four Artemis II astronauts on a mission to the moon and backapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square257fedilinkarrow-up1797arrow-down19
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minus-squareFordBeeblebrox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·15 hours agoWell the solar panels all deployed and are charging, but yeah using chemical burns isn’t good for much beyond orbital movement
minus-squareSam_Bass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·15 hours agoStill need a reliable method to convert the power gained from solar into propulsion with enough force so that it won’t take a decade to get anywhere
minus-squareFordBeeblebrox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 hours agoThe nuclear reflection engine is still our best bet, I feel like it may take actual zero G experiments to solve but I think we can achieve fusion
Well the solar panels all deployed and are charging, but yeah using chemical burns isn’t good for much beyond orbital movement
Still need a reliable method to convert the power gained from solar into propulsion with enough force so that it won’t take a decade to get anywhere
The nuclear reflection engine is still our best bet, I feel like it may take actual zero G experiments to solve but I think we can achieve fusion