39 min listen
9 – Riding Ions (feat. Joe Cassady)
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Length:
38 minutes
Released:
Jul 21, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Electric vehicles aren’t just taking over our roads – they’re taking over our orbits, too! Solar electric propulsion is a cutting edge technology that allows spacecraft to change velocity up to an order of magnitude more efficiently than traditional chemical rockets. Joe Cassady from Aerojet Rocketdyne and Explore Mars talks with us about how this propulsion works, it’s power requirements, the development status, and how we’ll use it to eventually send cargo to Mars in support of human exploration.
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Aerojet Rocketdyne
Explore Mars
NASA Press Release on SEP Development Contract
Joe debates Robert Zubrin “When should we go to Mars?” at H2M 2016
Joe’s Twitter Account
Further info from NASAspaceflight.com on SEP
WeMartians Theme Song is “RetroFuture” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Links
Aerojet Rocketdyne
Explore Mars
NASA Press Release on SEP Development Contract
Joe debates Robert Zubrin “When should we go to Mars?” at H2M 2016
Joe’s Twitter Account
Further info from NASAspaceflight.com on SEP
WeMartians Theme Song is “RetroFuture” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Released:
Jul 21, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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