A
19-year-old Egyptian university student called Aisha Mustafa has invented a
propulsion device intended to offer spacecrafts a new method and cheaper means
of energy consumption.
The
propulsion device promises chances of using quantum physics and chemical
reactions in artificial satellites, instead of the current radioactive-based
jets and ordinary rocket engines.
Mustafa’s
device is based on a scientific mix between quantum physics, space technology,
chemical reactions and electrical sciences.
Mustafa
said the inventions generates energy for space vehicles from electric energy
formed by Casimir-polder force, which occurs between separate surfaces and
objects in a vacuum and by the zero-point energy considered as the lowest state
of energy.
The device
uses reflective panels for additional force which resembles photovoltaic solar
cells.
At present,
artificial satellites, spacecrafts and space vehicles depend on rocket gas
engines that use forced gas at a supersonic speed, or chemical reactions
rockets propelled by solid or liquid fuels such as radionuclide or petroleum.
Others use electrically propelled probes, which depend on thrusting force via
accelerating ions.
The physics
student at Sohag University told EGYNews agency she has patented the device
with Egyptian Academy of scientific Research and Technology (ASRT).
The
invention is related to a hypothetical concept of a jet propulsion called
“Differential Sail”, theoretically created by NASA’s retired professor Marc G.
Millis -- who led NASA breakthrough propulsion physics project.
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| Aisha Mustafa |
The
19-year-old says she aims at testing her invention at major scientific research
organisations hence the possibility of applying it in upcoming space missions.
The new
invention, analysts say, is expected to make space travels, easier, cheaper and
faster in future.
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