SpaceX founder Elon Musk has announced the launch of an ambitious new SpaceX program to create rocket fuel from carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere. According to experts, in the future, such technology will help humanity during flights to Mars for "refueling" spacecraft directly on the Red Planet.
The businessman has not yet specified the timing of the launch of the program, having limited himself to inviting potential partners to the project on his blog on Twitter. According to the available information, the method of converting carbon dioxide into fuel is based on the Sabatier reaction , during which the air is purified from carbon dioxide, as well as the formation of methane.
Given that the atmosphere of Mars is predominantly CO2, a successful launch of the technology could, in theory, provide future expeditions with fuel to return to Earth. In addition, processing plants are able to "clean" and the earth's air. The launch date of the project by the company has not yet been announced.
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Your comment and facebook share will be appreciated