{"id":172184,"date":"2023-09-17T00:27:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T05:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/mini-space-thruster-that-runs-on-water"},"modified":"2023-09-17T00:27:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T05:27:40","slug":"mini-space-thruster-that-runs-on-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/mini-space-thruster-that-runs-on-water","title":{"rendered":"Mini space thruster that runs on water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mini-space-thruster-that-runs-on-water2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Designed to manoeuvre the smallest classes of satellite, the operation of this Iridium Catalysed Electrolysis CubeSat Thruster (ICE-Cube Thruster) developed with Imperial College in the UK is based on electrolysis.<\/p>\n<p>This tiny fingernail-length space thruster chip runs on the greenest propellant of all: water.<\/p>\n<p>Avoiding any need for bulky gaseous propellant storage, an associated electrolyser runs a 20-watt current through water to produce hydrogen and oxygen to propel the thruster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designed to manoeuvre the smallest classes of satellite, the operation of this Iridium Catalysed Electrolysis CubeSat Thruster (ICE-Cube Thruster) developed with Imperial College in the UK is based on electrolysis. This tiny fingernail-length space thruster chip runs on the greenest propellant of all: water. Avoiding any need for bulky gaseous propellant storage, an associated electrolyser [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}