A photo from open sources As you know, any space mission in features those that are designed to return the crew either cargo home, strictly limited by the volume of transported fuel.
This factor is one of the main reasons why humanity is still unable to conquer the essential cosmic distance. If you take a little fuel with you, you will not fly far, and if a lot – it will be mainly burned, providing own transportation, which also can not be called good option.
Specialists from Deep Space Industries – Private American firms studying the industrial development of asteroids, – reported that fuel can be extracted outside our planet. This is where more profitable and more rational than transporting fuel during the space missions. According to experts, asteroids contain water, in theory allowing to create long-term gas fuel in place storage. The simplest option is splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, followed by the combustion of these gases. Similar technologies, by the way, are already actively used on Earth.
Deep Fab Industries spokesman Daniel Faber reports that asteroid fuel production for intergalactic ships will allow astronauts to master the entire solar system. Delivery now tons of fuel to Earth orbit costs about thirty million dollars, while getting one ton of fuel from a moving a celestial body can cost as little as three million considering use of specialized equipment and human labor.
This year, the company plans to begin a study of the possibility of fuel production on regolithic asteroids. To this end, Americans will create special installations on Earth to simulate this kind of operations. These tests should be a significant step towards humanity to space exploration.
True, ufologists look at these attempts by orthodox science is skeptical, because our space program, like fussing around fuels for primitive earth missiles compared to UFOs seem games of kids in the sandbox, which are still far from understanding how the real ones move in space and time spacecraft.
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