Comment on UN banned Apollo Fusion's business model of using mercury rocket propellant to launch satellites into space

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lefty7283@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Mercury would be a denser propellant than xenon/other Nobel gasses used for ion thrusters in orbit. There’s been a ton of other insane fuel types proposed over the years which thankfully haven’t been used (although a lot of rockets have and still use toxic hypergolic fuels like hydrazine)

Good vid going over some of these fuels: youtu.be/_wLk2j7_KB0

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