NASA creates electric launch vehicle.

NASA invents all kinds of crazy stuff every year on this day.

NASA are buying the new tech from banggood, they got a discount on the batteries by using a code from BLF !

If they go for a Chinese supplier, let’s hope they will use these mighty 9,900 mAh batteries.

Just found out that Imalent is licensing their active cooling tech to NASA.

Heard that Elon’s not happy. SpaceX was planning to do this and NASA’s graphics appear to be redrawn versions of their patent applications.

Best day of the year.

Posting this on April 1 doesn’t lend much credibility to the story. :wink:

If only li-ion batteries had progressed that far…

Unfortunate the energy they provide (same weight) compared with hydrogen and oxygen is on a different scale.

And hydrogen+oxygen barely gets the job done.

I have yet to see an 18650 whose weight approaches zero when it’s depleted. That’s a very important part of rocket fuel equations, also, from what I hear.

They use WhateverFĂ­re cells which spontaneously burst into flames and jettison themselves out the back, providing additional thrust, as well as satisfying the RFE.

:+1: . Yep…. 1 April. :smiley:

Just how thirsty are you?

Yes this was an April Fool post. But the question still remains. If you have batteries with a power density greater than liquid fuels how would you make a space craft out of them?

It doesn’t matter how you make the space craft. You launch it on 4/1. :stuck_out_tongue:

Eject them out the back just before they explode

Start watching at 3:07 for proof of concept.

Well dident they do that sort of a long time ago with the laser powered vehicle lightcraft.

People close to the project told me they were also going to incorporate one of these.

That… guy… is… my… new… hero. :heart_eyes:

Bell labs are named after the Nazi bell shaped “UFOs” they dissected before the Roswell one.
/me adorn his tinfoil hat that are grounded with a 1 gauge cable.

I saw the word lunch and had to click on it

magneto-reluctance, pre-fabricated amulite, recipirocating dingle-arm :laughing:

Some of the terms he used sounded familiar to me, so wikipedia to the rescue:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator

Turns out the original is actually from 1944. Twenty-two pages is pretty impressive, considering botnik and markov generators hadn’t been invented yet.

Thanks to Inkidu I finally know the origin of some of the technobabble terms that existed before they were eclipsed by Back to the Future, and everything became flux capacitors.