[Interview] Satellites That Scoop Air And Use It As Propellant

Universe Today Podcast - A podcast by Fraser Cain

Satellites run out of fuel and have to de-orbit and end their missions. But what if they had access to a practically infinite amount of fuel? What if they could scoop air from the atmosphere and use it as propellant? That is exactly the research that Dr Mansur Tisaev is doing! šŸŸ£ Guest: Dr. Mansur Tisaev https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mansur-Tisaev šŸ‘‰ Dr Andrea Lucca Fabris https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/andrea-lucca-fabris šŸ¦„ Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday šŸ“š Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 02:04 Ion engines 15:32 Effects of the solar activity 19:35 Advantages of air-breathing engines 28:13 What's next 32:05 Non-Earth applications 36:26 Interstellar applications 38:35 Current obsessions 41:03 Final thoughts šŸ“ŗ VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Lz4O6AzLofQ šŸ“° EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter šŸŽ§ PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ šŸ¤³ OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday šŸ“© CONTACT FRASER [email protected] āš–ļø LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast