i get the benefits of using the lower gravity of the moon to launch spacecraft but what’s the process and what type of equipment will we need to get the hydrogen and turn it into fuel?
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Hydrogen is the fuel. There biggest advantage of hydrogen is that it’s the most efficient fuel. Releases the most amount of energy per unit mass. For a rocket we want the most thrust and the least mass. So hydrogen is the best choice.
It comes with a number of complications though. Cooling, leaking and if the size of the fuel tank matters like for a plane you might be better of with a fuel that has a higher energy per unit volume score which is also less complicated to manage.
But we work with what we have and hydrogen is a good fuel especially if we can produce it from the local resources like water.
Water is H20. With electrodes we can slit water into hydrogen and oxygen. Of course this is a very energy hungry process. So we get H2 and O2 and this is what we need for fuel we burn our H2 with O2 releasing energy and giving us water again.
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