[amsat-bb] Re: High LEO for cubesat?

[Joe]

Morning Bob,

This water fuel sounds interesting.

I know you can seperate water into it's components with electricity as 
you say.  common .

But  when  water either Boils, evaporates, or in the case of a vacuum,  
again a somewhat different "Boil"  and turns gaseous,  is it still H2O  
or has it broke down into it's components also?

Joe

Robert Bruninga wrote:

>>Much of the debate on the board here arises 
>>from our common desire to see the launching 
>>of satellites with a larger footprint.
>>    
>>
>
>For what it is worth, this semester I will finally get a student
>to work on the 40 year old AMSAT idea of a water rocket.  (Carry
>water to orbit and use solar power to electrolizie the wate to
>H2 and O2 and then burn those in a thruster to raise the orbit
>of a cubesat.
>
>Mostly the goal is to get from the very low (short lived) LEO to
>a higher LEO to get longer life, but it will be fun to get this
>project going again.  I had a working model about a dozen years
>ago, but it eventually blew up..  Now we will get another one
>built probably...
>
>Bob
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