World Is Not Enough (spacecraft propulsion) | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-03-27

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00:01:02 1 Overview
00:02:29 2 General description
00:04:55 3 Testing
00:07:51 4 Power
00:08:33 5 See also



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The World Is Not Enough (WINE) is a US project developing a refuelable steam engine system for spacecraft propulsion.  WINE developed a method of extracting volatiles from ice, ice-rich regolith, and hydrated soils and uses it as steam propulsion which allows the spacecraft to refuel multiple times and have an extraordinary long service lifetime. This would allow a single spacecraft to visit multiple asteroids, comets or several landing locations at an icy world such as the Moon, Mars, Pluto, Enceladus, Ganymede, Europa, etc. 
The harvesting and propulsion systems were successfully tested in December 2018 on a small spacecraft prototype under simulated asteroid conditions. WINE is a joint project of Honeybee Robotics, the University of Central Florida, and Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida.