NASA wants to build fuel stations in space

Recently, NASA has awarded contracts to four companies planning to study how to store and transfer fuel in space.

This serves spacecraft flights into space for long periods of time.

Currently, according to US President Barack Obama's directive, NASA is embarking on a program aimed at discovering a small planet in 2025 and Mars in the mid-2030s. So the spacecraft will need to refuel in orbit or on the surface of another planet or on the moon.

A warehouse in Boeing space designed to fuel the Missile (Photo: Space)

NASA's "Exploration Technology Development" program has awarded a total of $ 2.4 million to four organizations: the Association for Technical Analysis Inc in Hampton in Virginia State, Aerospace and Public Works Corporation technology in Boulder in Colorado State, Boeing Company in Hungary, Beach State, California, Lockheed Martin Space System Company in Littleton, Colorado, to implement the project.

This project does not simply build a fuel station in orbit, but also must be equipped with techniques to keep super-cold temperatures for substances such as liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. If not kept cold, these substances will easily mix with other gases.

NASA is also aiming to test the refueling robots on the International Space Station that were taken by space shuttle Atlantis in July.