U.N. Kills Any Plans to Use Mercury as a Rocket Propellant
Cars That Think
APRIL 19, 2022
Bender is referring to the 2013 Minamata Convention on Mercury , a U.N. And it’s cheap—there’s not a lot of competition with anyone looking to buy mercury. In 2019, a group of researchers in Italy and the United States estimated how much of the mercury used in spacecraft propellant might find its way back into Earth’s atmosphere.
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