{"id":30620,"date":"2016-09-29T14:47:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T21:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/making-rocket-fuel-from-water-could-drive-a-power-revolution-on-earth"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:33:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:33:15","slug":"making-rocket-fuel-from-water-could-drive-a-power-revolution-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/making-rocket-fuel-from-water-could-drive-a-power-revolution-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"Making rocket fuel from water could drive a power revolution on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/making-rocket-fuel-from-water-could-drive-a-power-revolution-on-earth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers led by NASA\u2019s former chief technologist are hoping to launch a satellite carrying water as the source of its fuel.<\/p>\n<p>The team <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2016\/09\/cornells-quest-make-first-cubesat-orbit-moon\">from Cornell University<\/a>, guided by Mason Peck, want their device to become the first shoebox-sized \u2018CubeSat\u2019 to orbit the Moon, while demonstrating the potential of water as a source of spacecraft fuel.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a safe, stable substance that\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/jpl\/the-solar-system-and-beyond-is-awash-in-water\">relatively common<\/a> even in space, but could also find greater use here on Earth as we search for alternatives to fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/making-space-rocket-fuel-from-water-could-drive-a-power-revolution-on-earth\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/making-space-rocket-fuel-from-wa...n-on-earth<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers led by NASA\u2019s former chief technologist are hoping to launch a satellite carrying water as the source of its fuel. The team from Cornell University, guided by Mason Peck, want their device to become the first shoebox-sized \u2018CubeSat\u2019 to orbit the Moon, while demonstrating the potential of water as a source of spacecraft fuel. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30620","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49811,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30620\/revisions\/49811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}