Sentence examples for propellant source from inspiring English sources
During laser ablation, the asteroid itself provides the propellant source material; thus a very modest spacecraft can deflect an asteroid much larger than would be possible with a system of similar mission mass using ion beam deflection (IBD) or a gravity tractor.
One early application of the architecture is providing lunar sourced propellant to refuel ACES for traditional spacecraft deployment missions.
Lockheed Martin also described a liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellant system which would source fuel from water sources within reach, including frozen ice found on asteroids, after exhausting an initial supply brought from Earth.
All early breechloaders used black powder as their source of propellant energy, but in the early 1880s more powerful and cleaner-burning nitrocellulose-based propellants were perfected.
The plan, funded in part by NASA, could lead to the harvest up to 100 metric tons of water from an asteroid near Earth, which in turn could be used as a relatively cheap and convenient source of propellant for spacecraft, its supporters say. .
No power source or propellants are used and the clear chamber ensures that the patient knows when all the insulin has been inhaled to allow accurate dosing.
Utilization of lunar sourced propellants has the potential to dramatically lower the cost of transportation within the cislunar environs.
The lunar ice can serve as a source of rocket propellants when split into its hydrogen and oxygen components.
Let's turn NASA's brilliant thinkers, engineers and facilities loose right now to support space-based enterprises such as commercial laboratories, propellant depots and new energy sources like space solar power.
There are, however, missions such as flights to other planets where sustained low thrust from on-board energy sources would save on propellant.
As suggested earlier, systems using energy sources independent of the propellant fluid have been studied, and they offer promise for several space missions.
