Could Helium-3 Power Our Future? (Part 3) | Helium-3 Powered Rockets Explained

Video Authors:

Milan Sivakumar B.S in Biomedical Engineering UT Austin'23

In this video we explore whether Helium-3 can be used to power our rocketry and spacecraft. This is a two-parter where we will be exploring the concept behind the engine design for a Helium-3 power based spacecraft in the next video. This video comes shortly after the launch of Artemis 1 which is the beginning of a new chapter in human space exploration with fusion energy being at the helm!


Sources:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis-i/
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1992lbsa.conf...75S
https://personal.ems.psu.edu/~radovic/Chapter14.pdf
https://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/thermo/faq/rocket-fuel.shtml
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20140017392
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/liquid-hydrogen
https://www.idealhy.eu/index.php?page=lh2_outline
https://web.wpi.edu/Pubs/E-project/Available/E-project-031306-122626/unrestricted/IQP.pdf

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Dreams Become Real by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Icelandic Arpeggios - DivKid

TheFatRat-Xenogenesis


Chapters:

0:00 Intro

1:10 Artemis 1 and traditional rocketry

1:49 Traditional Helium-3 fusion explained

1:59 Helium-3 Advantages

3:17 Thrust to weight ratio

3:56 Drawbacks of Helium-3

5:10 Conclusion


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