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5 cooking sprays discontinued due to being toxic

Cooking sprays are easy to use, but they haven't always been the safest. To create the spray, many have used toxic ...

Turning structural failure into propulsion

Solar sails have some major advantages over traditional propulsion methods—most notably, they don't use any propellant. But, ...
American Rifleman

Picking A Propellant For Your Handloads

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SpaceNews

Phase Four wins DARPA contract to test novel propellant

Phase Four won a U.S. Air Force AFWERX contract in 2021 to test iodine propellant in its electric thrusters. Credit: Phase Four SAN FRANCISCO – Phase Four won a Defense Advanced Research Projects ...
American Rifleman

Precise Propellant Measuring

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SpaceNews

Clogged propellant lines doomed NASA lunar cubesat mission

LOGAN, Utah — A NASA lunar cubesat mission failed to go into orbit around the moon earlier this year when debris blocked propellant lines for the spacecraft’s thrusters. NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...
Hackaday

Rocket Propellant Manufactured From Old Newspaper

It turns out that old newsprint can be a bit explosive; at least when it’s combined with the proper ingredients. [Markus Bindhammer] worked out a way to make solid rocket propellant from newspaper.
The Atlantic

How Airbags Are Supposed to Work

The sound of an airbag deploying is loud, like the cracking of a whip. Really, it’s the noise of an explosion. When car sensors detect a crash, a chemical reaction is triggered by the ignition of a ...
New Atlas

NASA says puzzling new space drive can generate thrust without propellant

A NASA study has recently concluded that the "Cannae Drive," a disruptive new method of space propulsion, can produce small amounts of thrust without the use of propellant, in apparent discordance ...
The National Interest

Solid-Propellant Motor Test Proves Iran’s Continuing Missile Advancement

One might be forgiven for missing a statement this January by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force (IRGC-AF) commander Amir-Ali Hajizadeh heralding the successful test of a ...
Mashable

SpaceX says refueling its Starship in space won't be scary

SpaceX will be responsible for getting NASA's astronauts to the lunar surface with a human-landing system version of Starship. Credit: SpaceX When SpaceX rolls Starship to the launchpad this year for ...