Water-powered hybrid moon rockets...from London
Dec 27, 2023•6 min
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Episode description
In this special episode of The Standard’s Tech & Science Daily podcast, we’ll learn how a start-up has built a tiny bit of outer space, here on terra firma inside - but why?
The high-pressure vacuum chamber lets London space engineering expert Ashley Johnson, CEO of Applied Atomics, and his team develop what’s believed to be the world’s first chemical/electric-powered, water-fuelled hybrid rocket engine.
Now they’re building a spacecraft prototype in the hope of cutting costs for moon missions - and in future scaling the system to nuclear propulsion.
Mark Blunden reports from the Applied Atomics test facility.
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