Perhaps best yet, it's largely self-sustaining. Solar energy can be used to electrolyze the stored water into oxygen and hydrogen to continue powering the rocket engine for years.

Commercially available magnets could significantly improve the efficiency of water splitting in a microgravity environment.

Turning Carbon Into Oxygen and Fuel The experiments, conducted by the Shenzhou-19 crew, utilized artificial photosynthesis—a technology that mimics how plants convert carbon dioxide and water ...

Since sending the first human into space in the 1960s, the solution to one key challenge has remained elusive: the efficient and reliable production of oxygen in space. On the International Space ...

SpaceX launched its huge Super Heavy-Starship on Tuesday, chalking up what appeared to be a remarkably successful test flight ...

Masten Space Systems is developing a robotic rover called Rocket M that could one day mine water on the Moon using rocket blasts. An entrant in NASA's Break the Ice challenge, the rover uses ...

While the water and vapour have to be separated, the membrane that allows hydrogen and oxygen to combine in the fuel cell must remain wet. Minimum leakage and voltage loss is also required.

Rockets like SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V combine supercooled oxygen with rocket-grade kerosene to produce thrust necessary for liftoff.

The liquid oxygen needed to support those hospitalized with COVID and on ventilators also plays a key role in ensuring rockets get off the ground come launch day.

Researchers are developing a new type of rocket propellant made of a frozen mixture of water and "nanoscale aluminum" powder that is more environmentally friendly than conventional propellants and ...