Category : Science and TechPublished on: December 03 2022
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Japan's space agency has successfully used water to propel a spacecraft.
Japan’s space agency Jaxa has announced it successfully used steam to propel its spacecraft that was launched as one of the payloads aboard Nasa’s Orion spacecraft.
JAXA confirmed that the EQUULEUS spacecraft performed a maneuver that moved it toward its planned orbital path on the second Earth-Moon Lagrange point (EML2), located beyond the Moon.
Lagrangian points are locations in space where the gravity of large objects, such as planets, are balanced out by the centrifugal force of a spacecraft, allowing for a very stable orbit.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, for example, is located out in Lagrange Point 2 (LP2).
