is one of the major problems facing NASA fuel is used. Besides being a drain on the space agency’s wallet, it consumes a lot of Earth’s non-renewable resources.
So, NASA has been working on solar power for a long time, with a number of projects working through panels. However, it is practically impossible to get the ship off the ground with this type of booster.
A heavy device requires a significant use of fuel to fly and stay in the sky at the altitude of the planes. Let’s not even talk about whether that machine would want to cross the atmosphere to orbit the Earth.
Faced with this inconvenience, NASA studies several projects that are based on alternative energy in order to save money and be kinder to the planet they must protect, because no one but them knows how complicated it is to find another similar one. Is.
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fly a spaceship with solar power
NASA’s research, in collaboration with experts from the University of Pennsylvania, aims to survive solar-powered spacecraft. According to a review by El Confidential, they have already managed to test the technology with smaller objects. Now comes the part where they do it with scales that are useful for space exploration.
The project’s mechanisms should include levitation, so that it stays aloft without the need for conventional fuel, and photophoretic propulsion, which according to the scientific team “is generated when a solid is heated with respect to ambient gas by means of light.” is, inducing an exchange of momentum between the solid and the gas”.
The idea is that the ship rises to a height of about 50,000 or 80,000 meters; A low region where planes do not go because the air is too dense and high enough to act as a satellite without being affected by meteors.
For this to work, the ship must be made of nanoscopic elements that make it light enough. When it reaches the mentioned height, it should have the ability to move horizontally, like the drone does in the movie “Interstellar”.
What is going to be the use of such a ship? According to scientists from NASA and the University of Pennsylvania, it will work to discover the secrets related to climate and the different layers of our atmosphere.
