Method of flying on the moon and a device for flying on the moon
AssigneeNingbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
InventorsWenwu Zhang, Yufeng Wang
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Abstract
Disclosed are a method of flying on the moon and a device for flying using the method. A medium on a surface of a moon and a medium accelerating module are used in the flying method. The medium is transferred into the medium accelerating module, accelerated by the medium accelerating module, and ejected out of the medium accelerating module by using a power supply. A counterforce is generated in accordance with the momentum conservation, and the counterforce overcomes the lunar gravity and drives a load to take off. The method is suitable for the environment of the moon where flight by means of atmospheric buoyancy is impossible due to the shortage of atmosphere.
Claims15
A method of flying on a moon, which uses a medium on the moon, the method comprising:
- by using a power supply, transferring the medium into a medium accelerating module, and accelerating the medium by the medium accelerating module and ejecting the medium out from the medium accelerating module in a force having a direction and a magnitude and without changing a state of the medium, wherein a counterforce is generated in accordance with momentum conservation law with a direction of the counterforce opposite to the force direction, and a magnitude of the counterforce is the same as the force magnitude, and wherein the counterforce overcomes a lunar gravity and drives a load to take off,
- wherein the medium is one or more of soil, gravel, moon rock, or moon water,
- wherein the medium accelerating module comprises a driving unit and a rotating unit, wherein the driving unit drives the rotating unit to rotate by using the power supply, so that the medium is transferred to the rotating unit where the medium is accelerated and ejected from the medium accelerating module, and
- wherein the driving unit is an electric motor or a motor and the rotating unit is a blade or an impeller.
A device for flying on a moon, comprising:
- a power supply;
- a medium accelerating module;
- and
- a medium storage unit, wherein, in an operating state, the power supply supplies electric power to the medium accelerating module, a medium is transferred from the medium storage unit to the medium accelerating module, the medium being one or more of soil, gravel, moon rock, or moon water, and is accelerated by the medium accelerating module and ejected out of the medium accelerating module in a force having a direction and a magnitude and without changing a state of the medium, to generate a counterforce having a direction opposite the force direction and a magnitude the same as the force magnitude, and wherein the counterforce overcomes a lunar gravity, so that the device for flying on the moon is driven to take off,
- wherein the medium accelerating module comprises a driving unit and a rotating unit, wherein the driving unit drives the rotating unit to rotate by using the power supply, so that the medium is transferred to the rotating unit where the medium is accelerated and ejected from the medium accelerating module, and
- wherein the driving unit is an electric motor or a motor and the rotating unit is a blade or an impeller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.