All the Work on this site was paid for and supported by the
United States Departement of Energy,
at the Idaho National Laboratory.

 
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new fuel: Near Earth Object fuel

This site contains some of the presentations and technical notes of the author.  Just before he left the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), United States Department of Energy, and where he worked from 1991 thru 1998, he was the last and de-facto Principal Investigator, Nuclear Space Transport Systems.  The INL space activities have changed there sometime during ~ 2006.  
 

© art by zuppero

[[ A version of the entire topic, presented at the Pollock Pines Rotary Club, February 2008, 2 Megabyte pdf. ]] 
I hear them say " A Bit Far Out, Dr. Z",  so try  "bitfarout" as a / append

" Propulsion to Moons of Jupiter
   Using Heat and Water
   Without Electrolysis Or Cryogenics "


This work was performed using United states Department of Enery funding at the Idaho National Laboratory
and the report was published under the sponsorship of NeoKismet L.L.C., May 2005.


Submitted draft, is a longer, better story with color illustrations    
       (PDF, 206 kBytes, color, better story)


Final Draft of Paper is a shorter, concise technical paper with black and white illustrations. 
      (PDF, 198 kBytes, black and white, per conference rules)


Conference Slides, Power Point

Compares a mission to Callisto using either water or liquid hydrogen propellants, and carrying along the hardware to extract water from space objects such as near earth asteroids, Earth's moon, comets and ice moons.

 
  
 


conference:  http://www.sesinstitute.org/Papers/call.html

Paper Identification Number: 09211248Zupp

Author: Dr. Anthony Zuppero

Affiliation: NeoKismet, L.L.C.


19 Jan 2005


Pump and Pressure Vessel Considerations for Nuclear Heated Steam Rocket
Anthony C. Zuppero, William D. Richins
for presentation to the at the American Nuclear Society 1998 Annual Meeting    Annual Meeting, June 6-10, 1998 Boston, MA

short paper on water pump needed for steam rocket.


Spaceships Made of Ice

iceship


1998 version of lunar ice water truck1999artwork by Mark Maxwell

with retired NASA Johnson Space Center structures expert as coauthor



lunar ice water truck (1997)

describes nuclear-heated steam rocket in the role of a water truck, to take lunar ice
from the moon's North or South poles and into orbit around the Moon.




factor of 1000

Origin of How Steam Rockets can Reduce Space Transport Cost by Orders of Magnitude

    [[ see "simple"  for comparision of steam vs liquid oxygen / liquid hydrogen rocket system,
pre-conference version of the paper for the
      "Space Technology & Applications International Forum (STAIF-99)"
                              Jan 31, 1999 to Feb 4, 1999 in Albuquerque:
             "16th Symposium on Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion"
                          Session: "Affordable Space Fission Power and Propulsion"



"Manned Mars Missions Using Propellant From Space,"  describes using comet water,  presented at "10 TH Symposium On Space Nuclear Power And Propulsion," January, 1993, Albuquerque, New mexico, USA    195 Kbytes






Abundant mass in space can dramatically lower the cost of a satellite that generates electricity and sends it to Earth.
   (text available on request, and still in draft form)



The Space of Earth-Crossing Objects

images of the swarm of objects that cross the orbit of earth     cropped, printable version (download, 2 MByte)




icemoons a steam rocket  can launch from and land on, extracting water from ice    icemoons

Word Document notes:
notes for mission analysis of trips to ice moons of solar system, using steam rockets ... raw notes, lots of data but not much explanation.

comparison of liquid hydrogen vs steam propellant for trip to Callisto, moon of Jupiter
 



nearly unlimited dirty oil shale from space

One use of the rocket fuel could be to bring back to Earth some of the nearly unlimited supply of hydrocarbons, which are something like "oil shale from space." The amount of hydrocarbons (dirty oil shale from space) is more than the capacity of Earth to absorb or use.     (( draft story for book  exodusweb/spaceoilone/  ))



these comets appear to make a donut starting at Mars and ending at Jupiter
 


medium resolution (300 kbytes)
high resolution (2.2 megabytes) jpg of near earth asteroids and comets
 cropped printable version (download, 2 MByte) for students
rocket fuel around Earth itself, for a faster internet connection
Another use is to bring back "rocket fuel" to orbits around Earth. The rocket fuel would make space missions much less expensive. Commercial communication satellites would make a fast cell phone internet connection to a laptop computer.  How could we use the recently discovered "rocket fuel" from space to make the cost of communication satellites less expensive?


fuel and resources from space


solar heated steam rocket



data on solar heated and nuke-heated steam rockets



derivation of optimum rocket specific impulse



example: from Earth to Mars


from another.



space98 viewgraph raw notes



The same, optimum value of delta_V/Vsp



more space98 viewgraphs and interesting charts




The near-Earth Asteroids and comets seem to be herded into stable orbits.


this is a 1997 working paper that shows the asteroid and comet distributions, and a conjecture about how spent comets might bring water to the poles of the moon and Mercury.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
book chapters, in process: type in: http://neofuel.com/exodus

not space related:
     symetric maxwell equations     (2.7 Megabytes jpg files)
     strange radiation  (2 Megabytes  jpg files)
     Iwamura    (320 k bytes, pdf)


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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