South Australian Company to Recycle Space Junk Into Rocket Fuel

Rocket Fuel Will Be Made From Space Junk: Four Companies Will Recycle In Four Stages

Now it is possible to recycle dangerous space junk into rocket fuel and its effort has already started. The orbit on which our planet revolves is being filled with debris of old spacecraft, satellites, rockets. This is becoming a serious problem for the entire human race. But if you tell it is possible to recycle this dangerous space junk into rocket fuel and its effort has already started?

The South Australian company Newman Space has brought the concept of this amazing recycling in space instead of Earth. Newman Space has previously developed an “in-space electric propulsion system” that can be used to extend spacecraft missions into low Earth orbit, move satellites, or take them out of orbit. This is what Newman Space Company is now working with three other companies on a plan to convert space junk into rocket fuel.

In four stages, such space will be converted into junk rocket fuel

This will be possible only by coming together with technology from different companies. In an effort to convert space junk into rocket fuel, Japanese start-up Astroscale has already demonstrated how it can use satellites to capture bits of debris in space.

America’s Nanorocks, on the other hand, is working on a plan to store that debris in orbit and use advanced robotics to cut it into smaller pieces.

Another American company, Cislunar, is developing a space foundry to convert these small space debris into metal rods. After these three phases of technology from these three companies and Newman Space’s “in-space electric propulsion system” those metal rods can be used as fuel.

Space debris is a serious problem for this reason

Once an object is sent into Earth’s orbit, they can stay there forever. until they go out of orbit (d-orbit). After de-orbiting they burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere (or occasionally collide with the Earth’s surface).

But generally, damaged and broken satellites or used rocket parts are moving at a speed of 28,000 kilometers per hour in Earth’s orbit. At this high speed, they have the ability to easily destroy communication satellites .

Last week Russia fired an anti satellite missile and destroyed one of its own satellites. Due to this the debris of the broken satellite spread all around. The US said that the debris is now a “threat to the interests of all countries”.

South Australian Company to Recycle Space Junk Into Rocket Fuel

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