{"id":20399,"date":"2021-09-08T22:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T22:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=20399"},"modified":"2021-09-08T22:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T22:00:17","slug":"the-air-breathing-tech-that-china-hopes-can-fuel-a-new-generation-of-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=20399","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018air breathing\u2019 tech that China hopes can fuel a new generation of satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostResearchers at Beihang University in Beijing say they have found that shock waves can occur in space, destabilising objects travelling at very high speeds.This could have a big impact on \u201cair-breathing\u201d satellites being designed to use molecules of air, rather than chemical fuels, to propel themselves in orbit.The shock waves had the potential to not only destabilise a satellite, but also drive the molecules away, reducing the device\u2019s ability to collect the propellent and shortening its\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3148040\/air-breathing-tech-china-hopes-can-fuel-new-generation?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostResearchers at Beihang University in Beijing say they have found that shock waves can occur in space, destabilising objects travelling at very high speeds.This&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20399"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}