Launching Rockets With Electricity
What will it take to ditch chemical rockets and make space launches fully electric? What tech will it require and when will it be reasonable to use such a system? What technical challenges are associated with it? Answering all these questions with David Dillon, the founder of Electromagnetic Launch. ЁЯСЙ Electromagnetic Launch https://electromagneticlaunch.com/ ЁЯжД Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday ЁЯУЪ Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:38 The idea behind electromagnetic launch 07:40 Quech launcher 14:45 How the system will could like 24:03 Recent partnerships and applications 33:09 Space infrastructure 36:13 What s next ЁЯУ░ EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter ЁЯОз PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ ЁЯд│ OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday ЁЯУй CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com тЪЦя╕П 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.
