Satellites That Scoop Air And Use It As Propellant

Satellites run out of fuel and have to de-orbit and end their missions. But what if they had access to a practically infinite amount of fuel? What if they could scoop air from the atmosphere and use it as propellant? That is exactly the research that Dr Mansur Tisaev is doing! 🟣 Guest: Dr. Mansur Tisaev https://www.researchgate.net/profile/... 👉 Dr Andrea Lucca Fabris https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/andre... 🦄 Support us on Patreon:   / universetoday   📚 Suggest books in the book club:   / universe-today-book-club   00:00 Intro 02:04 Ion engines 15:32 Effects of the solar activity 19:35 Advantages of air-breathing engines 28:13 What's next 32:05 Non-Earth applications 36:26 Interstellar applications 38:35 Current obsessions 41:03 Final thoughts 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 70,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe for Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Mastodon: astrodon.social/@fcain Twitter:   / fcain   Twitter:   / universetoday   Facebook:   / universetoday   Instagram:   / universetoday   📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.