[Interview] 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/Mansur-Tisaev 👉 Dr Andrea Lucca Fabris https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/andrea-lucca-fabris 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Lz4O6AzLofQ 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)