Thank you for coming out and visiting! You and your team are so awesome! You know way more in the rocket field than I had imagined, and you guys were so fun to have around for the week! Thanks!!! And great video!
I had never heard of this before seeing this video. A lot more people need to know about you and your company, and your breakthroughs! I really hope you get the contracts and backing you need to take this to orbit, literally! I look forward to learning more.
Thank you for allowing one of my all time favorite channels the opportunity to visit . You really enlightened many of us in an area we have little to no knowledge about. I wish there were many more companies like yours . I hope this coming year brings even bigger breakthroughs and successes.
Do a collaboration with another youtuber (Project Air, Tom Stanton or Rctestflight), where you build the rocket engine, while the other youtuber does the chassis and electronics/controller. Tomatoes are disgusting!
This guy's tactic of giving away a 3D printer to people suggesting video themes is great. It encourages community engagement, provides inspiration for future projects, and offers creative people a 3D printer who otherwise might not have one which supports this eccentric community. Really awesome stuff and I'm super excited to see where this channel goes!
@@trumpatier I was thinking investing other funds into giveaways to drive YT vids to the point… but I haven’t done the numbers … depends on ‘type of content… I think make-up” vids pay out more than “how to” vids… so ya edit maybe not 200 dollars but 200 perceived dollars/or value. Anyway zzz
@@vicariouswitness ahh. Yeah the bad thing about doing that is you attract viewers that are only there for free stuff. The second you stop giving out free stuff, they're gone. And they don't carry genuine interest in your content, so they tend to just skip through to find out how to get the free stuff.
this is probabky the 4th of 5th video of yours that i randomly watch. I gotta say i like you, your style, you're easy going. You tackle the stuff and don't go around it, show the truth of it. spread simple informations. make science more accessible to people, invite standard people into your show. This is how it should be. You got my subscription.
I wondered why no one thing of using it as an gun propellant, like naval ships can use them as an alternative for rail gun, and more safer than conventional propellant.
Video idea: Try to compare the thrusters that you builded in the past in one video, analysing how much control and power you have using different types.
dude you could have at least bought a bit more than 5k likes I mean pete bought 4k likes and now you bought 5k to pass him thats kinda sad... its pretty obvious you guys just bought the likes from somewhere or botting...
Just an cheater doing that for the 3d printer also is it worth to cheat for an 3d printer? Instead of buying likes cant you just buy a printer for yourself?
JPL engineer here, yea hydrazine is no joke, I work with it frequently and always worry about a leak. It reacts with regular steel and copper, something you can find everywhere on a navy ship. I'm interested in this GEM stuff and cant wait to work with some of that instead.
@@defeatSpace well if you're talking about a space ship there's solar panels battery won't be a problem in terms of weight. But what i wonder if it'll be more efficient than a normal jet engine or rocket engine it might be better used for the tomahawk to increase its effective range.
@@defeatSpace I don't think it needs a huge amount of power. Maybe a small battery is enough to get it started.. could even just put a tiny fan on the rocket that generates the power from the motion through the air and stores it in a supercapacitor.. If done right I think the controller & PCB could be more of a weight concern 🤣
@josephmercel1146 There is no such thing as a blastic cap. You are obviously not ex military if you don't know that. Because I had family in the miliary, like one who flew a EC-121.
@@warhammer8867 We use electricity to ignite the propellent in tanks, at least with NATO ones. The hammer set up wouldn't be practical for something that big.
the intro section where you say "if you stop applying voltage it stops burning...completely" was such a well executed hook, i was on the edge of my seat
I like the idea of this as a propellant, but there might be an even better one, so we have started to understand frequency and how we can use it to lift objects, right now we're only lifting very small objects, but if we were to figure out how to boost that power, we could potentially create crafts of any shape or size that could fly by using frequency generator technology. It sounds science fiction, but we already have something like this that exists now, currently they're using it to piece together building items without touching them using frequency, but I believe that if these frequency generators we're all within a craft pointed in all directions, and focused on each other that we could create liftoff without the need of any other propellant, it's completely without sound to the human ear, the frequencies just too high for us to hear, but we could use it to propel any of our vehicles if the generators are put in the right spots and properly programmed and focused on each other. Anyway, I believe using frequency focused could actually take us much further in space than any other propellant that we've ever used and far faster using far less power in order to achieve on that return.
@@5226-p1e I think what you're referring to is a type of sound wave engine. The term frequency is a measure of oscillation (back and forth movements) which could refer to sound/air, electrical current, or what most people think of when the term is mentioned electromagnetic frequencies (which includes low earth EM, radio, infrared, visible light, ultra violet A B and C, X-Rays, and Gamma Rays). The general idea of a sound wave engine has been around for quite a while and there is some merit to them but there's also a lot of factors that make them less practical. Sound waves don't travel in a vacuum, they are made up of a fluid (typically air) that's being moved in a particular way. Sound waves could potentially be used to move in heavy atmospheres like some planets have and/or be used to control a fuel but they can't just push a ship along without some sort of fluid to push against.
@@grn1 well a wave is pushing the frequency wave correct? so if it's only pushing the wave that it's emmiting, wouldn't that propell objects, and if there were several of them for all directions for a craft, it could push that object right? i have already seen a few videos on this subject, now my terminology is probably off, the applications i have seen are very small scale, but i believe so long as it has a powerfull enough energy source to push out constant vibration or sound waves that is tuned to a frequency that will create lift off, i also believe there would have to be many of these sound emitters in various directions likely needing to be controled through an computer algorithm with machine learning capabilitys to gain the proper method of what will lift the object the best way possible. there is a quote that Nikola Tesla once stated about sound vibration and frequency in this way, but he was also referring to his coil tech extract electricity from the air when this other device was fully connected, at the time he didn't have the tech to use vibration so he couldn't build this craft with the tech of his time, but he had this theory that this is how it would have worked having all the parts and tech at his disposal. but his rival pretty much shut down any hope he ever got of getting anything off the ground because he would have needed the funding to make his ideas to become a reality, it's too bad he wasn't that good of a business man, i know he wanted to help people and provide free electricity to the world and pretty much made his tech at cost only and never wanted more.
@@5226-p1e The sound wave itself is kinetic energy moving or more accurately transferring through air or some other fluid as it moves away from the actuator/source. The actuator pushes against the atoms of the fluid which sends them flying into other atoms and when they collide they transfer some energy into those atoms and so on and so forth. The sound wave needs a medium to move through unlike electromagnetic waves which are made up of photons and can fly freely through a vacuum. Technically photons have some kinetic energy as well but because of their low (practically non-existent) mass they can't exert much force. In space there is almost no fluid, there's technically some (mostly hydrogen/single protons) but nowhere near enough for sound waves to travel, basically there's nothing for the actuator to push against in space. Sound waves could propel a craft in atmosphere or possibly underwater (might actually work better underwater) but not in space. Normally when you hit air it doesn't have much back force, the force that pushes the vessel away from the atoms it's hitting like someone pushing off against a wall. If you hit the air hard and fast enough though it can act more like a solid wall creating much stronger back forces. Sounds waves may also be able to create cavitation bubbles in water or a similar effect in air to reduce drag though that issue doesn't exist in space. The most promising propulsion technologies for space are nuclear engines and rotating detonation engines (RDEs) which can throw fuel out (creating a back force/propulsion) at faster than sound speeds (much faster than an actuator, which is needed for a sound wave engine, can work). The most likely candidate right now is an RDE, there's been a lot of progress on them but they actually suffer from their success, they are so powerful that they can't be contained for long. If we can overcome the issues of containment they could potentially become more powerful and possibly easier to build rocket engines. Nuclear engines require nuclear reactors (ideally a fusion reactor but fission could also work) which are very problematic due in large part to red tape but also because of the safety concerns with trying to build a reactor in space or send one up from Earth but that may be even harder due to size and weight. To be clear the type of nuclear system needed for a nuclear engine is a completely different beast than the tiny nuclear batteries we've used in the past (which also suffer heavily from red tape and supply issues).
One of my favorite types of dangerous chemicals are ones that they can tell you all the ingredients, and even most of the steps to make them, but there's always just one step that's too complicated/dangerous to carry out personally. I think it'd be fun to watch you make a home-made plasma cutter for metal materials, just to see how far you can push diy rocketry!
The really fun ones are the ones that go from entirely insensitive precursors to a chemical that will explode if you breathe on it. Which is an alarming number of chemicals tbh.
@@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098 hans is easy to make but their solution may be different. Your end result may yield a completely different product than theirs.
Video idea: Pulse Width Modulate the rocket fuel and see how much control you can apply to thrust. Maybe this could power an RC plane by throttling forward for lift and turn left/right via two separate motors placed strategically on each side of the plane?
Might be interesting for unusual maneuvers, but it's probably better to have control surfaces running on servos for safe flight overall. Perhaps as a control scheme for some sort of missile that makes more sense. Something like the Sprint.
DSSP seems like a fantastic company! Honestly as someone studying engineering, I could see myself enjoying working there. What a fantastic, interesting, and niche technology that I never even knew about.
here is my video idea; what if you combine your latest bladeless fan project with your 3d printed rockets and create an ion thruster rocket, powered by a tesla coil or other high voltage source. Maybe you can integrate a mini tesla coil into a rocket to make it fully portable.
I live 20 minutes from DSSP and had no idea that such an integral part of what is possible in future space exploration was so close to me! Unbelievable! Great video!
I would like a series where you take a commercial product, reverse engineer and try to recreate it and then compare the DIY version with the commercial one. See differences, try to reason design choices etc that are not evident on first glance but crystallize down the making pipeline. This would also be a great educational tool.
I reckon it would be awesome to see you build a multistage rocket and actually launch in in some remote field or something. You build a lot of engines but rarely actually test them in flight, I think only once in your sugar rocket video did you actually launch any rockets. It would be cool to see you choose one of your past engines and create a working model rocket from it, and it would be especially unique if you made it multistaged and perhaps attached some sort of command nodule with an arduino or something. Would be a cool process to watch in a video!
Just want to say you're awesome! I've been watching for a while thinking "This guy is so awesome at using the tools he has, if only he could get his hands on big-budget tech". In the last years the channel has gone from awesome backyard analogies to showing the practical application of literal cutting edge rocket science. Seriously; your content is just... the best way to see and understand these technologies. It's one thing to explain how something works - it's another to actually show one's own process, successes and failures, of practically getting said thing to work. P.S. I think your interview was awesome.
I finally got my first working 3D printer. It's an Ender 3 V2 NEO. Nothing special, but it gets me started. I also got a drier box wo go with it to keep 2 rolls of filament in. One that's printing that goes to the printer with a bowden tube. The other is just there for storage. It's very exciting. My first prints are tools for work (I'm a general technician for an R&D firm) and upgrades for the printer. I've added gantry reinforcement brackets that are adjustable, so you can square up the gantry's uprights. Added a belt driven second Z lead screw. I have some ideas for the Y axis, but those are yet to be built. Right now I''m working on upgrading the part cooling by relocating the hotend fan, shrouding it from the part, upgrading the stock fan nozzle, and adding a second part cooling fan without removing or moving the factory metal CLTouch ABL. No one has this mod available, so I'm modeling it myself.
While on the topic of rocketry: My suggestion is to try to make an aluminium fuel cell. I always wondered why Rocket Lab don't use it since it's more energy dense at the same weight, should be much cheaper and they already have oxygen on board, the only downside is that it's single use but they throw away their batteries anyway. So I want to see how challenging it is to make something with aluminium and NOT let it oxidize before you can take the energy out of that reaction.
Probably easy of supply and "no unknown factors". As they can get a well know LiPo while a aluminium fuel cell... I do now know were you would get one, or even how safe or viable for space travel is. So they would have to make one and make it viable.
I would love to see you build your own flow reactor one day! During my chemistry studies I used them, super handy to step away from batch chemistry and indeed finely control the temperature/time of a reaction. Great video Integza. really interesting
I took one look at the flow reactor they flashed on screen and immediately saw how I can make it out of two plates and a CNC router... Flow the two together over a large surface area so you could pull the heat out of the reaction and then you just thermally regulate the other side of the plates. I would probably use a secondary fluid on the other side of the plates and then regulate the temperature of that fluid That way you just have to pump something through the plates and if something goes wrong you still have fluid there to help control thermals. Sounds like a fun project to me
Just do me a favor and build a containment enclosure for your reactor, the thing is, I worked with a few and there is always a leak or something unexpected happens. It might look unnecessary, an expensive overkill, but it might unexpectedly save your life.
Jumped through your ad and got "I solve most of my problems [cut] with micro thrust" and just paused before you said Thrusters cause I laughed Thats.. I love it
Please, when you do get a decent amount of GEM, test its thrust through different nozzle types (Conical, Bell, Aerospike, etc). I'm very curious as to the thermal expansion rate of the reaction, and how that rate might vary in different nozzles. Who knows, maybe this propellant makes aerospikes viable. Cheers!
Bro, is there a thing like thermal expansion of rate of reaction ?? Thermal expansion occurs in metals and every element has its coefficient of thermal expansion. And yeah, nozzles won't change any materials thermal expansion.
Here's an idea I would love to see you make, A medium scale remote controlled plane that has a slot for a variety of engines that would run on different types of fuels and test their efficiency, e.g. rocket candy, monopropellant, compressed air etc. Great vid btw! Edit: maybe not the best thing to do in terms of legality, I am just sharing an idea.
I don't know how many Integza videos you watched, but based on my experience, that plane would survive max 3, maybe 4 flights before exploding or crashing.
@@Eduardo_Espinoza Yeah there probably are many documentations of fuel types but trying out different rocket designs and nozzle's and strapping them to a RC plane would be very interesting.
Imagine having hockey pucks of the stuff you load into a hopper on board a spacecraft. An ignition source like and engine with plumbing around the craft. The material is super stable and posses no threat and could be stored in bulk onboard. Individually wrapped like glow sticks. Reloaded as needed. Or you could have individual propellant igniters around the craft that you load with pre made sticks of the propellant. As you burn through a stick of propellant, you would essentially get a reloadable system for vector thrusting. All very cool stuff. I can imagine systems in place to use such a propellant. I agree this could change space travel.
pretty proud of Integza, been watching since the earlier days, and he's gone from showing us how he's learning, to like a proper presentation on information. It's still an engineering channel, but he's becoming so much more legit without losing the charm.
Cool video! I'd love to see a thrust-engine that combines electric arcs and magnets. I'm assuming it would only work in an atmosphere and have limited propulsion but some of the videos demonstrating it look fun. (Sorry if this has already been done)
Hydrazine was quite popular in drag racing in the 1970’s as a fuel additive. It was also ridiculously dangerous. My great uncle, Bobbie Langley, built/drove the Scorpion I, II, and III, and also worked extensively with hydrazine. I’d love to see something on this, as I’ve only seen one video online that talked about it. This was wild stuff.
@@Bubble_Nugget Extreme is an understatement, even old school astronauts (people that went from flying fighter jets to strapping themselves to a modified ICBM) used extreme caution with the stuff. If memory serves it was only used for emergency escape or landing systems and only because they didn't have something else that was compact and reliable enough (better to deal with toxic chemicals than have astronauts or possibly others die because the landing and/or maneuvering thrusters failed). SpaceX went to extreme measures to create compact liquid rocket engines that could be quickly and reliably ignited so they could avoid using hydrazine or similar propellants on their Dragon capsules.
I used to live in an area with a lot of fighter aircraft activity. My dad warned me that if an F16 ever crashed, to never walk towards the wreck because it has a Hydrazine tank for its emergency power unit.
I just checked out their msds and I have to say that I am excited to see them using 5-aminotetrazole. It now makes sense how they can reuse those igniters so many times. It has the ability to detonate in extremely small quantities, and is part of the next generation of green energetics. I did find an article where they were rejected by the Army because their composition has stability issues where I assume the hydroxylamine nitrate is decomposing.
I think a better propellant would be to use frequency, frequency if focused correctly, you could create lift of any object no matter what size or shape, and I believe that it could work in space as well, not to mention take far less propellant power in order to achieve the goal
I doubt it will be used as rocket propellant, but for tank gun shell propellant it would be ideal. It would reduce risk of ammo cook-off quite dramatically AND increase combustion efficiency (faster projectile speed or more weight of the projectile for the same size and mass of the shell).
Hey Integza, awesome video. I don't know if you are now under contract and whatnot to not make HAN, HIPEP, or GEM...but as a chemist, these are super easy to make. Getting the ratios right in the final composition might be more tricky, but make these is totally doable if you are careful. HAN can be made by mixing hydroxylamine sulfate and barium nitrate (barium sulfate will form and crash out of solution, so just filter the liquid containing the HAN out, just don't dry it fully since its apparently a friction sensitive explosive and decomposes over time as a solid) or hydroxylamine hydrochloride (this is the form I see most commonly in lab settings) and silver nitrate (again, you'll get a precipitate of silver chloride which you can filter out). Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) is super common, and GEM is (from a cursory google search) just a mix of HAN, Ammonium nitrate, water, and methanol. The biggest thing to be careful about is that HAN itself is not the most friendly thing, hydroxylamines tend to be fairly toxic, so you just have to make sure you are using good PPE.
This is actually really interesting, cause I was wondering how hard it was to really make HAN, of course I would assume the ratios of making GEM would be something not disclosed to Integza. Really would love to get my hands on this stuff for some cool Physical Effects stuff like they showed with the eSquib.
I love your enthusiasm and to be honest your not to far off but this is a bit more to the products and you have some wrong ingredients there, also there are better ways to may HAN that can be produced in much larger quantities and with less work and cleaner... You definitely can tell you know what your talking about though and don't let me stop you. you may find new things out by doing it different ways.
Fantastic new video, how in the world did you ever run across DSSP? I have never even heard of this kind of fuel. It is awesome that you could go and interview them, and they were so accommodating. The closing segments were awesome showing they are all dog lovers at this small but potentially disruptive company.
Made me wonder too, because even though I'm sure they got the patents on everything patentable, they are still kinda showing how they make "the thing" - so either they're lying, or they are extremely open (which is a good thing, just rare)
@@GerinoMorn It seems that real tech can shine now. There's a lot more advanced labs these days working independently, and yes, the best kind of people tolerate dogs. If someone cant get along with a dog while making jet fuel, they are untrustworthy.
This is fascinating! Thanks for introducing it to me. It seems that the main complexity of this style of propellant is maintaining the distance between the electrical ignition and the continuously shrinking solid fuel. Wow, I hope the company doesn't get angry about having enough info in a youtube video to recreate their invention.
Thank you for making this video! I had wondered how this technology worked since reading the Wikipedia article on DSSP a few months ago, though I guess not strongly enough to do any real investigation, and here I learned more before you even started talking than I did from reading Wikipedia. And I had no idea DSSP was so open about it! The Wikipedia articles I read gave an impression of secretiveness, or at least of not much info being publicly available. (The Wikipedia articles I read were the Digital Solid State Propulsion article and the SPINSAT section of the SpaceX CRS-4 article (satellite it was tested on). I had also read the article on HAN, but was unaware of any connection.)
Video idea: using the dssp developed solid fuel for rocket boosters, but instead of having them at the scale of a normal booster, use thin long rods of the stuff with baffels and/or gates to prevent a runaway reaction. If you strap enough of these thin rods together in the same diameter as a normal boost, it just might work for liftoff!
Man, I've been watching this journey from the start, and if you haven't made your perfect rocket quite yet, you have at least gone down some very interesting and entertaining alleys. Good work.
Could you do a video about how a 2-stroke engine uses a resonant pulse, standing waves, and harmonics to run? And how changing those properties tunes the engine.
From my understanding they're fairly similar to how pulse jet engines operate, kind of and that's a big KIND OF lol. There's a channel called 2 stroke stuffing that touches on the subject a bit in some of his older videos. I know the distance of the expansion portion of the chamber and stinger from the exhaust port has a big effect on how much power the engine delivers relative to RPM, throttle, fuel input etc.. I.e. An expansion portion of the chamber closer to the exhaust outlet typically producing more low RPM torque and HP and further being better for higher RPM power. There's obviously a ton of other variables that effect performance as well, whether it has a reed-less piston-port design, crankcase reeds, or intake port reeds. If it has an exhaust valve which can have different designs being mechanically and/or electrically actuated effectively changing the duration and flow of expelled and resonant exhaust gases . The Intake, exhaust, transfer port timing, and squish band (portion of the upstroke where the air/fuel mixture is compressed partially dictating the static and dynamic compression ratios) ignition timing, fuel type & mixture all have a pretty significant effects on everything also. There's really a lot to unpack on the subject of 2 stroke engine operation and it's all somewhat subjective to the type of two stroke engine and relative variables in play. I'm just a lowly-laymen motorcycle mechanic though so I can't speak as to how exactly the primary/secondary forces, harmonics, and resonant exhaust pulses work as thoroughly as Integza might be able to but hope this helps a little. 😂🤙
@@WreckedRevival Thanks, I have a very loose understanding of the science behind it. A friend of mine can actually design intakes and exhausts, I don't understand that. I just thought it would be a beneficial video so people have a better understanding of how ICE's operate.
@@sporeut that’s awesome, would be cool to be able to fabricate stuff like that. I definitely agree though, more people having a basic understanding of the fundamentals of engine operation would definitely be beneficial!
--- video idea----- ---- laser-guided rocket---- Once you have a rocket with movable fins you could put a night vision camera that would see IR light on the front. An infrared laser would be the brightest spot to the camera. With some Vision code you could program the fins to guide the rocket to the brightest spot. This could be used for long range use against tomatoes.
"once you have a rocket with movable fins" Huuuuuuuuuuuuge project there to have something that works. In addition to the hardware, you'll need some pretty powerful and hard de develop controllers to guide it well. "Some vision code" probably very hard hard to do correctly. That's not a video idea, that's a multi year project
Absolutely NOT, that is how you get terrorism charges or arms manufacturing. That will DEFINITELY have your door kicked in by the feds of some sort ASAP.
It's about time the algorithm started offering me something extremely cool like this video. This was the most interesting and thought-provoking video I've watched in some time. As I started watching the video, my first thought was, "why isn't Elon Musk using this propellent?" Then just as quickly that question was answered to some disappointment, but my enthusiasm was then revived with the discussion of GEM. Now I must watch so many more of your videos. Is it possible for you to get aerogel or graphene and do videos on them? I know videos are out there about each, but I am interested in what you would do with them.
The reason SpaceX wouldn't use such a fuel is because the rockets going to Mars need to be refueled on Mars and it is a lot easier to make methane and O2 than this stuff.
As Filonin2 said, SpaceX needed a fuel that could be manufactured on-site (methane), with Mars in mind (but has the added benefit of theoretically becoming greenhouse neutral here - or as close as possible to. Super important considering the number they hope to be launching. Rockets are "dirty", but there's not a significant number launched right now - jet's output dwarfs that of rockets right now) They currently use RP1 ("rocket fuel", specially refined kerosene basically, aka "jet fuel") for their Falcon 9 rockets, but that burns a bit too sooty so isn't viable for "rapid reuse" that they're hoping for with Starship. Hydrogen is also out of the question for reusability (I can't remember the specific reason atm, probably volume - which is it's normal fault) I'm not sure you can actually "do" anything fun with graphene. It's an incredibly weak material to work with (like a spiderweb), it's best use is as a coating for other substances (which is hard enough in a lab) to strengthen and improve their performance afaik
Would be interesting to see if you could figure out a way to 3D print propellant or oxidizer. That way you could tweak the reaction surface area or reaction speed. No idea how useful it would be, but I'm sure you'll find a way to make it entertaining!
I'd imagine you could 3dp the hipep they mention in the vid, considering it's made with pva and that's a commonly used plastic for 3dp supports, it's also mixed from two liquids and then cast so if you couldn't use an fdm printer you might be able to use one of those syringe types. Not sure what the advantage to doing this might be however.
Intega, I've just found that in Ultimaker Cura slicer you can make molds by inporting a 3D model and in print settings selecting in "special modes" mold.
Topic idea: "How I made a 3D Printed Wind Turbine" I arrived at this suggestion by using Bing-GPT to list all the topics that you have covered to date in order to creatively generate a topic that has not been covered yet, that best matches your overarching theme and would connect best with your audience. I wanted to leave little to chance because I blew my budget on a resin printer only to discover that a good Cartesian printer was what I really needed for my projects.
Hey! Make a solid propellant rocket with thin ESP layers in between to check if it stops burning the rest of grain. And how does it effects the overall thrust output if we want to burn the whole thing in one go... Hoping this comment reaches you
I'm a huge fan of "aerogels" and their theoretical and practical applications. Using this video, could you explore it's insulative properties as a shroud/protective shell for rockets?
We use aerogel all the time as firewall for race cars, I guess the conditions in rockets are even worse but the industry can justify the price more than us :D
I would have liked to see an energy comparison between all of these fuels. Something about energy density and things like that. If you have the time to do so, please c:
Video Idea: You should investigate into the Rutherford engine (electric pump liquid propellant) and the curie engine, which i believe is another monopropellant engine but is still in trade secret. The company is called rocket-lab, I'm pretty sure your familiar with it. Could definitely help us understand the incredible specs of the rocket-labs rockets. Big Fan, keep up the fabulous work!
Curie was originally a pressure-fed monopropellant engine, but has since been upgraded to use "green" hypergolic bipropellants. HyperCurie is another variant which is pump-fed (similar to Rutherford) for even better performance.
My suggestion would be the emergent Pi competitors. Since you do a lot with uCs and SoCs, a comparison of some of them would be great. There is actually a new competitor coming out soon called Lichee Pi 4A (it's a beautiful PCB too...) but a price hasnt been posted because its still in pre-order status. The thing that draws me to it is that it can come with upwards of 16GB of RAM with a quad core RISC-V proc at 1.8GHz and a dedicated quad core NPU and GPU for AI purposes.
Yeah, I actually have a Lichee Pi 4A 16GB, and even now the experience isn't all too great even now but I haven't updated it in a moment. The GPU, AI NPU, encode/decode are off the shelf components from Imagination and their IP subcontractor(s), which aren't exactly known for stellar driver support or documentation. Even now, there's an open source Imagination driver that only supports Vulkan, one GPU, and is allegedly really buggy. I'm sure if I had a Pi4 or 5 I'd have a different opinion on how fast the LPi4a actually is, but the drivers are objectively awful. Also, the LPi4a doesn't have full RPi style GPIO support unless you make a PCB with most of the PC/desktop style features ripped out (e.g. sound, wifi) and whip up a custom device tree to handle that.
You should read Ignition by John D Clark. It’s a book on the history of rocket propellants (specifically abt 1930s-1960s). The book is very technical, but it’s really interesting.
I always hated science in school because it was not fun and complicated. If I had a teacher with the charisma of this guy and the ease of explaining the prosses I would have love science a lot more...
I would love to see you try your hand at building at building a scale rotary engine similar to what's in planes. Great video as always and thanks for making such complicated science and engineering understandable for more people!
@@christopherbrooke2142 i think it was De dion bouton who first designed a rotary engine for airplanes but that one was never fitted into one. Then Augustin, Louis, and Laurent seguin built the gnome omega which was I think the first rotary engine used in production for aircraft
For your next video i think you can build a thrust vector control system and test it with your solid rocket engine prototypes .İt would be a good resource for model rocketry
Imagine Integza prototyping an idea from the comments, Elon Musk seeing it and liking the concept so much that he ends up using it in his designs. It would be absolutely crazy to see something Integza prototyped being used to help brings humans to Mars!
Hey not a super innovative video idea. But would you not try to do your own rockets with the different propellants that you show in this video. I think it would be really fun to watch.
Well this is a really fascinating marvel of chemistry. Also lul at this guy encountering the problem of the ATF. Also bonus points to this man for finessing the recipe out of the chemist.
Video idea: Build a real size car powered by one or more of your engines scaled up. Build the Engine out of some stronger (but still cheap like plywood) material. Ps.: You could also make it a series where you test it on a small scale first so you get to know the charactaristics an problems and then scale it up bit by bit : )
Nice work on properly taking your time on explaining the subject, you videos always are very educative! That aside i would love to see your little 3d printed steam engine blow up if you would overdrive it with a slower burning propellant like the sugar mixture! >:)
Please collaborate with electro boom and Rc Test Flight to make a plane that uses motors powered out of this amazing pink rubber like material! That would be amazing and a huge step for this community of a million of amazing people! I love your content and please keep this magic your doing up, as soon a new integza video comes out I know it’s something crazy but amazing!
It would be cool to see a small scale version of those quad rocket powered vehicles with its layout configured sort of like an osprey but with two sets of wings one at the front and one at the back. You see this design a lot in futuristic movies so it would be nice to test if it is even possible and feasible. Also I'm new to this channel but this was by far one of my favorite rocket based videos I have seen yet on RUclips.
The way they are typically depicted (as vehicles capable of leaving and entering Earths atmosphere) would be extremely impractical in atmospheric conditions due to aerodynamic forces. If the ship was only ever going to be in space or was designed with the intent of hovering in place then the shape wouldn't matter to much but the reason rockets are designed the way they are is to minimize drag when trying to escape gravity (which is hard enough to do).
balancing thrust, esp with home-made rockets, means this is going to flip over. You need very fine and very fast control of thrust and angle to make this work.
I really enjoyed this video on electric solid propellant. It was really interesting to learn about this technology and the potential benefits it offers for rocket engines. Before watching this video, I had no idea that electric solid propellant even existed! I have a suggestion for a future video: have you ever considered covering the use of electromagnetic fields in the combustion chamber as a way to improve efficiency? I think it could be a really interesting topic to explore, particularly in terms of how it might work alongside electric solid propellant. Keep up the fantastic work!
I was thinking the same: "whaaaaat solid propellant you can control with electricity" and then "mmmh how much power would you need because batteries are 'heavy'". Ow would that be something for BPS.Space. doesn't he have a license for that kind of stuff?
Not exactly down your lane but when you guys were talking about his work with the Navy it made me think of self oxidizing propellant like what's used in torpedoes (Otto fuel 2 if I'm remembering correctly). That could maybe make for an interesting video, I would certainly watch.
It will be so awesome if you could make rockets out of ''GEM'' propellant! Video ideea: Try to create a rocket with one or more stages that can fly at the height of the clouds, tie a copper wire to it and when it rains, launch it into the clouds to short-circuit the sky, creating lightning on command! I've seen other youtubers trying it, but I'm sure youre the best person to make it have great results! Happy new year!
That looks really promising. Safe propellants for both main engines and thrusters, which only can be ignited by electricity (the solid version) or with a catalyst (fluid) and so can also be turned off whenever needed, the solid also having other fields of use. I want to hear more about this!
A very well-shot and edited video. The demonstrations, other footage, interviews etc. I should have subbed a while ago. tbh, I thought I already was. lol Wondering if there was any kind of construction with the solid propellant that could be used in a booster? I know a lot of boosters have a hollow core, so the gasses etc. can escape. Maybe there's a way the HAN gel stuff can be sandwiched between thin metal conductive sheets around a hollow core, and then each "slab" of gel ignited (electrically) in turn? (ElectronAsh patent pending.)
Video Idea: compare different methods of attitude/velocity adjustment (esp, ion, reaction wheel, thruster, etc) using a drone and/or a test rig that can measure thrust. Great video! This was something I've never heard of before.
Merry Christmas and a very happy New year to you sir, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for your video's and commend you on your delivery of them, I find your mix of knowledge and humour to be absolutely infectious and I actually learn more from you as a direct result of that very unique mix, I can't imagine a RUclips session now without visiting your site, I am curious as to the possibility of mixing potassium permaganate into a gel like substance, as it is a salt would it then be electrically conductive?
You should totally 3d print a joy buzzer and rig one of those "laser" thrusters to go off with it :P Not sure how feasible it would be to miniaturize the electronics but it would make for a pretty hilarious prank if possible.
Thrust Vectoring would be a neat idea to see in a video, might be a bit complicated to make with 3d printing, maybe use the lost pla method to get more resistant parts.
Video idea: how about you make explosive tomatoes and put them somewhere so that people who like them will come to take them and BAM they just knew how much tomatoes are DISGUSTING, (But be sure that people won't get hurt).
Thank you for coming out and visiting! You and your team are so awesome! You know way more in the rocket field than I had imagined, and you guys were so fun to have around for the week! Thanks!!! And great video!
They stayed a whole week? Wow!
Nice a comment from the people in the video
@@nightmareinaction629 I was looking too lol
I had never heard of this before seeing this video. A lot more people need to know about you and your company, and your breakthroughs! I really hope you get the contracts and backing you need to take this to orbit, literally! I look forward to learning more.
Thank you for allowing one of my all time favorite channels the opportunity to visit . You really enlightened many of us in an area we have little to no knowledge about. I wish there were many more companies like yours . I hope this coming year brings even bigger breakthroughs and successes.
Do a collaboration with another youtuber (Project Air, Tom Stanton or Rctestflight), where you build the rocket engine, while the other youtuber does the chassis and electronics/controller. Tomatoes are disgusting!
I like how there's no replies, everybody's just in agreement 😂
@@lewismassie Yeah ! Who else could @integza do a collab with?
Do a Rotor Riot collab! Perhaps Joshua Bardwell? Rocket Boost system would be so cool on a freestyle quad.
i also think BPS Space would be great, as he already experimented with throtteling solid motors
Integza inspired propuls-ion is truly interesting thing to colab with other rocket building RUclipsr
This guy's tactic of giving away a 3D printer to people suggesting video themes is great. It encourages community engagement, provides inspiration for future projects, and offers creative people a 3D printer who otherwise might not have one which supports this eccentric community. Really awesome stuff and I'm super excited to see where this channel goes!
Yeah.. It would be awesome to be able to give away $200+ every video lol
@@trumpatier it’s possible
@@vicariouswitness yeah, if you actually make a good bit of money on RUclips. I make $0
@@trumpatier I was thinking investing other funds into giveaways to drive YT vids to the point… but I haven’t done the numbers … depends on ‘type of content… I think make-up” vids pay out more than “how to” vids… so ya edit maybe not 200 dollars but 200 perceived dollars/or value. Anyway zzz
@@vicariouswitness ahh. Yeah the bad thing about doing that is you attract viewers that are only there for free stuff. The second you stop giving out free stuff, they're gone. And they don't carry genuine interest in your content, so they tend to just skip through to find out how to get the free stuff.
this is probabky the 4th of 5th video of yours that i randomly watch. I gotta say i like you, your style, you're easy going. You tackle the stuff and don't go around it, show the truth of it. spread simple informations. make science more accessible to people, invite standard people into your show. This is how it should be. You got my subscription.
Crazy how far this channel has come over the years. Really awesome to see.
I still miss the 'stache though, but I can see how it might be a fire hazard. 😆
@@paulmurgatroyd6372 And his fake ads from the beginning. And tomato lord.
@@paulmurgatroyd6372 YES IT MIGHT!! LOL!! 🤣
And dude still have all fingers.
I wondered why no one thing of using it as an gun propellant, like naval ships can use them as an alternative for rail gun, and more safer than conventional propellant.
Video idea: Try to compare the thrusters that you builded in the past in one video, analysing how much control and power you have using different types.
dude you could have at least bought a bit more than 5k likes I mean pete bought 4k likes and now you bought 5k to pass him thats kinda sad... its pretty obvious you guys just bought the likes from somewhere or botting...
How come you have 9600 likes and no replies?
Amazing idea 💡
Just an cheater doing that for the 3d printer also is it worth to cheat for an 3d printer? Instead of buying likes cant you just buy a printer for yourself?
Built
JPL engineer here, yea hydrazine is no joke, I work with it frequently and always worry about a leak. It reacts with regular steel and copper, something you can find everywhere on a navy ship. I'm interested in this GEM stuff and cant wait to work with some of that instead.
How can rockets use ESP for efficient flight when the batteries will add a lot more weight?
@@defeatSpace well if you're talking about a space ship there's solar panels battery won't be a problem in terms of weight. But what i wonder if it'll be more efficient than a normal jet engine or rocket engine it might be better used for the tomahawk to increase its effective range.
Nitromethane is a better propellant than hydrazine. And safe. Why not just use that.
@@defeatSpace I don't think it needs a huge amount of power. Maybe a small battery is enough to get it started.. could even just put a tiny fan on the rocket that generates the power from the motion through the air and stores it in a supercapacitor.. If done right I think the controller & PCB could be more of a weight concern 🤣
Can I contact you I have experiences with fuel
"You can shoot or burn and nothing happens which is unheard of in explosives"
*C4 has left the chat*
@josephmercel1146 That doesn't sound like C4. You need a blasting cap to ignite C4, otherwise it does nothing else.
@josephmercel1146 There is no such thing as a blastic cap. You are obviously not ex military if you don't know that. Because I had family in the miliary, like one who flew a EC-121.
We can use this as gun propellant for naval and tank guns.
@@warhammer8867 We use electricity to ignite the propellent in tanks, at least with NATO ones. The hammer set up wouldn't be practical for something that big.
static electricity are not mentioned like you build this up with your brand new shoes and a plastic mat and then boom
Hello, Build a thrust vector control system and test it with your prototypes!
Yes!!
And a cooling system
@@victorcurie-ismard3135 well they are passive air cooled hehe
I mean your idea is totally awesome. I just wanted it finally.
oh that would be interesting
the intro section where you say "if you stop applying voltage it stops burning...completely" was such a well executed hook, i was on the edge of my seat
I like the idea of this as a propellant, but there might be an even better one, so we have started to understand frequency and how we can use it to lift objects, right now we're only lifting very small objects, but if we were to figure out how to boost that power, we could potentially create crafts of any shape or size that could fly by using frequency generator technology.
It sounds science fiction, but we already have something like this that exists now, currently they're using it to piece together building items without touching them using frequency, but I believe that if these frequency generators we're all within a craft pointed in all directions, and focused on each other that we could create liftoff without the need of any other propellant, it's completely without sound to the human ear, the frequencies just too high for us to hear, but we could use it to propel any of our vehicles if the generators are put in the right spots and properly programmed and focused on each other.
Anyway, I believe using frequency focused could actually take us much further in space than any other propellant that we've ever used and far faster using far less power in order to achieve on that return.
I agree
@@5226-p1e I think what you're referring to is a type of sound wave engine. The term frequency is a measure of oscillation (back and forth movements) which could refer to sound/air, electrical current, or what most people think of when the term is mentioned electromagnetic frequencies (which includes low earth EM, radio, infrared, visible light, ultra violet A B and C, X-Rays, and Gamma Rays). The general idea of a sound wave engine has been around for quite a while and there is some merit to them but there's also a lot of factors that make them less practical. Sound waves don't travel in a vacuum, they are made up of a fluid (typically air) that's being moved in a particular way. Sound waves could potentially be used to move in heavy atmospheres like some planets have and/or be used to control a fuel but they can't just push a ship along without some sort of fluid to push against.
@@grn1
well a wave is pushing the frequency wave correct?
so if it's only pushing the wave that it's emmiting, wouldn't that propell objects, and if there were several of them for all directions for a craft, it could push that object right?
i have already seen a few videos on this subject, now my terminology is probably off, the applications i have seen are very small scale, but i believe so long as it has a powerfull enough energy source to push out constant vibration or sound waves that is tuned to a frequency that will create lift off, i also believe there would have to be many of these sound emitters in various directions likely needing to be controled through an computer algorithm with machine learning capabilitys to gain the proper method of what will lift the object the best way possible.
there is a quote that Nikola Tesla once stated about sound vibration and frequency in this way, but he was also referring to his coil tech extract electricity from the air when this other device was fully connected, at the time he didn't have the tech to use vibration so he couldn't build this craft with the tech of his time, but he had this theory that this is how it would have worked having all the parts and tech at his disposal.
but his rival pretty much shut down any hope he ever got of getting anything off the ground because he would have needed the funding to make his ideas to become a reality, it's too bad he wasn't that good of a business man, i know he wanted to help people and provide free electricity to the world and pretty much made his tech at cost only and never wanted more.
@@5226-p1e The sound wave itself is kinetic energy moving or more accurately transferring through air or some other fluid as it moves away from the actuator/source. The actuator pushes against the atoms of the fluid which sends them flying into other atoms and when they collide they transfer some energy into those atoms and so on and so forth. The sound wave needs a medium to move through unlike electromagnetic waves which are made up of photons and can fly freely through a vacuum. Technically photons have some kinetic energy as well but because of their low (practically non-existent) mass they can't exert much force. In space there is almost no fluid, there's technically some (mostly hydrogen/single protons) but nowhere near enough for sound waves to travel, basically there's nothing for the actuator to push against in space.
Sound waves could propel a craft in atmosphere or possibly underwater (might actually work better underwater) but not in space. Normally when you hit air it doesn't have much back force, the force that pushes the vessel away from the atoms it's hitting like someone pushing off against a wall. If you hit the air hard and fast enough though it can act more like a solid wall creating much stronger back forces. Sounds waves may also be able to create cavitation bubbles in water or a similar effect in air to reduce drag though that issue doesn't exist in space.
The most promising propulsion technologies for space are nuclear engines and rotating detonation engines (RDEs) which can throw fuel out (creating a back force/propulsion) at faster than sound speeds (much faster than an actuator, which is needed for a sound wave engine, can work). The most likely candidate right now is an RDE, there's been a lot of progress on them but they actually suffer from their success, they are so powerful that they can't be contained for long. If we can overcome the issues of containment they could potentially become more powerful and possibly easier to build rocket engines. Nuclear engines require nuclear reactors (ideally a fusion reactor but fission could also work) which are very problematic due in large part to red tape but also because of the safety concerns with trying to build a reactor in space or send one up from Earth but that may be even harder due to size and weight. To be clear the type of nuclear system needed for a nuclear engine is a completely different beast than the tiny nuclear batteries we've used in the past (which also suffer heavily from red tape and supply issues).
One of my favorite types of dangerous chemicals are ones that they can tell you all the ingredients, and even most of the steps to make them, but there's always just one step that's too complicated/dangerous to carry out personally. I think it'd be fun to watch you make a home-made plasma cutter for metal materials, just to see how far you can push diy rocketry!
The really fun ones are the ones that go from entirely insensitive precursors to a chemical that will explode if you breathe on it. Which is an alarming number of chemicals tbh.
Hydroxylamonium nitrate or HAN is easy to make from hexamine (Camping fuel Tablets), HCl , dilute nitric acid etc.
@@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098 just really slowly like the lady said so you don't blow yourself up
@@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098 hans is easy to make but their solution may be different. Your end result may yield a completely different product than theirs.
A manufacturer can tell you exactly how to make RDX too and you could do it with no problem, but can't legally sell it to you
Video idea: Pulse Width Modulate the rocket fuel and see how much control you can apply to thrust. Maybe this could power an RC plane by throttling forward for lift and turn left/right via two separate motors placed strategically on each side of the plane?
Might be interesting for unusual maneuvers, but it's probably better to have control surfaces running on servos for safe flight overall. Perhaps as a control scheme for some sort of missile that makes more sense. Something like the Sprint.
DSSP seems like a fantastic company! Honestly as someone studying engineering, I could see myself enjoying working there. What a fantastic, interesting, and niche technology that I never even knew about.
Look too much theoretic stufs there. I prefer JPL. where can test it and finde aplication and not just test under microscope and theorize it.
here is my video idea; what if you combine your latest bladeless fan project with your 3d printed rockets and create an ion thruster rocket, powered by a tesla coil or other high voltage source. Maybe you can integrate a mini tesla coil into a rocket to make it fully portable.
Thats a cool idea
maybe making a working tornado model using smoke or gas would be also a cool idea to see it visually
Indeed
A tesla coil isn't a power source, it uses a lot of power in order to make an electrical field.
you deserve the printer
I live 20 minutes from DSSP and had no idea that such an integral part of what is possible in future space exploration was so close to me! Unbelievable! Great video!
I would like a series where you take a commercial product, reverse engineer and try to recreate it and then compare the DIY version with the commercial one. See differences, try to reason design choices etc that are not evident on first glance but crystallize down the making pipeline. This would also be a great educational tool.
I reckon it would be awesome to see you build a multistage rocket and actually launch in in some remote field or something. You build a lot of engines but rarely actually test them in flight, I think only once in your sugar rocket video did you actually launch any rockets. It would be cool to see you choose one of your past engines and create a working model rocket from it, and it would be especially unique if you made it multistaged and perhaps attached some sort of command nodule with an arduino or something.
Would be a cool process to watch in a video!
Just want to say you're awesome! I've been watching for a while thinking "This guy is so awesome at using the tools he has, if only he could get his hands on big-budget tech". In the last years the channel has gone from awesome backyard analogies to showing the practical application of literal cutting edge rocket science.
Seriously; your content is just... the best way to see and understand these technologies. It's one thing to explain how something works - it's another to actually show one's own process, successes and failures, of practically getting said thing to work.
P.S. I think your interview was awesome.
This is *_extremely_* interesting. I had no idea such solid propellants existed. You, sir, have a new subscriber!
Howdy from Alberta!
Alberta fucking sucks, wish you the best though :)
one of us !, one of us !, one of us !
I finally got my first working 3D printer. It's an Ender 3 V2 NEO. Nothing special, but it gets me started. I also got a drier box wo go with it to keep 2 rolls of filament in. One that's printing that goes to the printer with a bowden tube. The other is just there for storage. It's very exciting. My first prints are tools for work (I'm a general technician for an R&D firm) and upgrades for the printer. I've added gantry reinforcement brackets that are adjustable, so you can square up the gantry's uprights. Added a belt driven second Z lead screw. I have some ideas for the Y axis, but those are yet to be built. Right now I''m working on upgrading the part cooling by relocating the hotend fan, shrouding it from the part, upgrading the stock fan nozzle, and adding a second part cooling fan without removing or moving the factory metal CLTouch ABL. No one has this mod available, so I'm modeling it myself.
You are not only entertaining but a good presenter. I’m currently binge watching your videos.
While on the topic of rocketry: My suggestion is to try to make an aluminium fuel cell.
I always wondered why Rocket Lab don't use it since it's more energy dense at the same weight, should be much cheaper and they already have oxygen on board, the only downside is that it's single use but they throw away their batteries anyway.
So I want to see how challenging it is to make something with aluminium and NOT let it oxidize before you can take the energy out of that reaction.
Probably easy of supply and "no unknown factors".
As they can get a well know LiPo while a aluminium fuel cell... I do now know were you would get one, or even how safe or viable for space travel is.
So they would have to make one and make it viable.
Also the amount of energy it takes to make aluminium
I think it would be worth a try since aluminum-air batteries have been used for powering missile guidance computers for decades.
aluminum instead of lithium?
@@JWQweqOPDH Yes I do think they would be worth a try but I don't think they are ideal.
I would love to see you build your own flow reactor one day!
During my chemistry studies I used them, super handy to step away from batch chemistry and indeed finely control the temperature/time of a reaction.
Great video Integza. really interesting
Future congrats on your 3d 😊
I took one look at the flow reactor they flashed on screen and immediately saw how I can make it out of two plates and a CNC router... Flow the two together over a large surface area so you could pull the heat out of the reaction and then you just thermally regulate the other side of the plates.
I would probably use a secondary fluid on the other side of the plates and then regulate the temperature of that fluid That way you just have to pump something through the plates and if something goes wrong you still have fluid there to help control thermals.
Sounds like a fun project to me
Ik heb je berichtje geliket. Wie weet win je een 3D printer :-)
Just do me a favor and build a containment enclosure for your reactor, the thing is, I worked with a few and there is always a leak or something unexpected happens. It might look unnecessary, an expensive overkill, but it might unexpectedly save your life.
Jumped through your ad and got "I solve most of my problems [cut] with micro thrust" and just paused before you said Thrusters cause I laughed
Thats.. I love it
Please, when you do get a decent amount of GEM, test its thrust through different nozzle types (Conical, Bell, Aerospike, etc). I'm very curious as to the thermal expansion rate of the reaction, and how that rate might vary in different nozzles. Who knows, maybe this propellant makes aerospikes viable. Cheers!
Bro, is there a thing like thermal expansion of rate of reaction ??
Thermal expansion occurs in metals and every element has its coefficient of thermal expansion. And yeah, nozzles won't change any materials thermal expansion.
@@imrealrageI think they wanted to talk about the volume of exhaust gas generated by a mass unit of propellant.
@@mixer0014 That would have made sense mate!
Here's an idea I would love to see you make, A medium scale remote controlled plane that has a slot for a variety of engines that would run on different types of fuels and test their efficiency, e.g. rocket candy, monopropellant, compressed air etc. Great vid btw! Edit: maybe not the best thing to do in terms of legality, I am just sharing an idea.
Not to be a kill joy but don't the fuel types have that listed somewhere?
I don't know how many Integza videos you watched, but based on my experience, that plane would survive max 3, maybe 4 flights before exploding or crashing.
@@hubertnnn I watched quite a lot of Integza's videos and it would be fun to see the outcome even if it ends in a blast!
@@Eduardo_Espinoza Yeah there probably are many documentations of fuel types but trying out different rocket designs and nozzle's and strapping them to a RC plane would be very interesting.
reinventing the wheel
I had no clue this class of fuel existed! Really interesting video!
Imagine having hockey pucks of the stuff you load into a hopper on board a spacecraft. An ignition source like and engine with plumbing around the craft. The material is super stable and posses no threat and could be stored in bulk onboard. Individually wrapped like glow sticks. Reloaded as needed. Or you could have individual propellant igniters around the craft that you load with pre made sticks of the propellant. As you burn through a stick of propellant, you would essentially get a reloadable system for vector thrusting. All very cool stuff. I can imagine systems in place to use such a propellant. I agree this could change space travel.
Until the craft gets hit by lightening.
@@YuckFoutube-e1zin space ? Lightning?
pretty proud of Integza, been watching since the earlier days, and he's gone from showing us how he's learning, to like a proper presentation on information. It's still an engineering channel, but he's becoming so much more legit without losing the charm.
Amen. I appreciate the growth and excitement.
Theres a spelling mistake tho its with not whith
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Cool video! I'd love to see a thrust-engine that combines electric arcs and magnets. I'm assuming it would only work in an atmosphere and have limited propulsion but some of the videos demonstrating it look fun. (Sorry if this has already been done)
Plasma jet engine/directed electric arcs
The link is fake. Scam
pretty sure what you're describing there is any ion drive?
@@nonchip yeah maybe, I think ion drives are a little different and more complex
@@nefariousone643 yeah i know, only a fool would fall for it
Hydrazine was quite popular in drag racing in the 1970’s as a fuel additive. It was also ridiculously dangerous. My great uncle, Bobbie Langley, built/drove the Scorpion I, II, and III, and also worked extensively with hydrazine. I’d love to see something on this, as I’ve only seen one video online that talked about it. This was wild stuff.
@@sjb3460 I guess that's why the recovery team are in hazmat suits when there's an accident
Oooh like the Turbonique? They had a drag axle that gave you 1000 HP or so instantly at the axle.
Very dangerous, if it spills on you, assuming you survive that, you get cancer too.
So you’re saying extreme fuel was real and not some random thing that a lot of racing movies have for some reason
@@Bubble_Nugget Extreme is an understatement, even old school astronauts (people that went from flying fighter jets to strapping themselves to a modified ICBM) used extreme caution with the stuff. If memory serves it was only used for emergency escape or landing systems and only because they didn't have something else that was compact and reliable enough (better to deal with toxic chemicals than have astronauts or possibly others die because the landing and/or maneuvering thrusters failed). SpaceX went to extreme measures to create compact liquid rocket engines that could be quickly and reliably ignited so they could avoid using hydrazine or similar propellants on their Dragon capsules.
I used to live in an area with a lot of fighter aircraft activity.
My dad warned me that if an F16 ever crashed, to never walk towards the wreck because it has a Hydrazine tank for its emergency power unit.
I just checked out their msds and I have to say that I am excited to see them using 5-aminotetrazole. It now makes sense how they can reuse those igniters so many times. It has the ability to detonate in extremely small quantities, and is part of the next generation of green energetics. I did find an article where they were rejected by the Army because their composition has stability issues where I assume the hydroxylamine nitrate is decomposing.
Ya unfortunately it dont have a long half life
I think a better propellant would be to use frequency, frequency if focused correctly, you could create lift of any object no matter what size or shape, and I believe that it could work in space as well, not to mention take far less propellant power in order to achieve the goal
Dude, actually a propellant type I didn't know. So excited 😃
Wow I had no idea this existed. Electric Solid Propellant, neat.
There were multille GEMs of ideas and cohosts in this video as well!
I doubt it will be used as rocket propellant, but for tank gun shell propellant it would be ideal.
It would reduce risk of ammo cook-off quite dramatically AND increase combustion efficiency (faster projectile speed or more weight of the projectile for the same size and mass of the shell).
Or caseless ammunition in general
Have you seen steering thruster arrays on military rockets ? That's the business .
It might be used in terrestrial rockets, like air-air missiles. Not for space.
Hey Integza, awesome video. I don't know if you are now under contract and whatnot to not make HAN, HIPEP, or GEM...but as a chemist, these are super easy to make. Getting the ratios right in the final composition might be more tricky, but make these is totally doable if you are careful. HAN can be made by mixing hydroxylamine sulfate and barium nitrate (barium sulfate will form and crash out of solution, so just filter the liquid containing the HAN out, just don't dry it fully since its apparently a friction sensitive explosive and decomposes over time as a solid) or hydroxylamine hydrochloride (this is the form I see most commonly in lab settings) and silver nitrate (again, you'll get a precipitate of silver chloride which you can filter out). Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) is super common, and GEM is (from a cursory google search) just a mix of HAN, Ammonium nitrate, water, and methanol. The biggest thing to be careful about is that HAN itself is not the most friendly thing, hydroxylamines tend to be fairly toxic, so you just have to make sure you are using good PPE.
Seconding this. Double displacement reactions are highschool simple to run and looks like hydroxylammonium sulfate is cheap from ebay.
This needs to win a 3D printer, my guy! I was hoping he said he figured out the formula anyway.
@@TheZero715zero Haha, I appreciate it, but I actually already have a FDM and SLA printer. Better to give it to someone who could really use it.
This is actually really interesting, cause I was wondering how hard it was to really make HAN, of course I would assume the ratios of making GEM would be something not disclosed to Integza. Really would love to get my hands on this stuff for some cool Physical Effects stuff like they showed with the eSquib.
I love your enthusiasm and to be honest your not to far off but this is a bit more to the products and you have some wrong ingredients there, also there are better ways to may HAN that can be produced in much larger quantities and with less work and cleaner...
You definitely can tell you know what your talking about though and don't let me stop you. you may find new things out by doing it different ways.
This is mind-blowing! :O
Fantastic new video, how in the world did you ever run across DSSP? I have never even heard of this kind of fuel. It is awesome that you could go and interview them, and they were so accommodating. The closing segments were awesome showing they are all dog lovers at this small but potentially disruptive company.
Scam^
@@adamcourtney7424 really? How so?
Made me wonder too, because even though I'm sure they got the patents on everything patentable, they are still kinda showing how they make "the thing" - so either they're lying, or they are extremely open (which is a good thing, just rare)
@@GerinoMorn It seems that real tech can shine now. There's a lot more advanced labs these days working independently, and yes, the best kind of people tolerate dogs. If someone cant get along with a dog while making jet fuel, they are untrustworthy.
@@Hclann1 there was this guy who was pretending to be joel but would ask for money if you messaged him he deleted his message i think
Love the human Guinea pigs to demonstrate lol
Fantastic video and easy to understand.😊
I love your videos. You bring to light stuff people don't even know about. A freaking solid rocket fuel like that is NUTS!
This is fascinating! Thanks for introducing it to me. It seems that the main complexity of this style of propellant is maintaining the distance between the electrical ignition and the continuously shrinking solid fuel. Wow, I hope the company doesn't get angry about having enough info in a youtube video to recreate their invention.
They don’t care much if someone duplicates it, it is under a patent.
Thank you for making this video! I had wondered how this technology worked since reading the Wikipedia article on DSSP a few months ago, though I guess not strongly enough to do any real investigation, and here I learned more before you even started talking than I did from reading Wikipedia. And I had no idea DSSP was so open about it! The Wikipedia articles I read gave an impression of secretiveness, or at least of not much info being publicly available. (The Wikipedia articles I read were the Digital Solid State Propulsion article and the SPINSAT section of the SpaceX CRS-4 article (satellite it was tested on). I had also read the article on HAN, but was unaware of any connection.)
Video idea: using the dssp developed solid fuel for rocket boosters, but instead of having them at the scale of a normal booster, use thin long rods of the stuff with baffels and/or gates to prevent a runaway reaction. If you strap enough of these thin rods together in the same diameter as a normal boost, it just might work for liftoff!
Man, I've been watching this journey from the start, and if you haven't made your perfect rocket quite yet, you have at least gone down some very interesting and entertaining alleys. Good work.
Could you do a video about how a 2-stroke engine uses a resonant pulse, standing waves, and harmonics to run? And how changing those properties tunes the engine.
From my understanding they're fairly similar to how pulse jet engines operate, kind of and that's a big KIND OF lol. There's a channel called 2 stroke stuffing that touches on the subject a bit in some of his older videos. I know the distance of the expansion portion of the chamber and stinger from the exhaust port has a big effect on how much power the engine delivers relative to RPM, throttle, fuel input etc.. I.e. An expansion portion of the chamber closer to the exhaust outlet typically producing more low RPM torque and HP and further being better for higher RPM power.
There's obviously a ton of other variables that effect performance as well, whether it has a reed-less piston-port design, crankcase reeds, or intake port reeds. If it has an exhaust valve which can have different designs being mechanically and/or electrically actuated effectively changing the duration and flow of expelled and resonant exhaust gases . The Intake, exhaust, transfer port timing, and squish band (portion of the upstroke where the air/fuel mixture is compressed partially dictating the static and dynamic compression ratios) ignition timing, fuel type & mixture all have a pretty significant effects on everything also. There's really a lot to unpack on the subject of 2 stroke engine operation and it's all somewhat subjective to the type of two stroke engine and relative variables in play.
I'm just a lowly-laymen motorcycle mechanic though so I can't speak as to how exactly the primary/secondary forces, harmonics, and resonant exhaust pulses work as thoroughly as Integza might be able to but hope this helps a little. 😂🤙
@@WreckedRevival Thanks, I have a very loose understanding of the science behind it. A friend of mine can actually design intakes and exhausts, I don't understand that. I just thought it would be a beneficial video so people have a better understanding of how ICE's operate.
@@sporeut that’s awesome, would be cool to be able to fabricate stuff like that. I definitely agree though, more people having a basic understanding of the fundamentals of engine operation would definitely be beneficial!
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---- laser-guided rocket----
Once you have a rocket with movable fins you could put a night vision camera that would see IR light on the front. An infrared laser would be the brightest spot to the camera. With some Vision code you could program the fins to guide the rocket to the brightest spot. This could be used for long range use against tomatoes.
If you develop any sort of terminally guided rocket - you will have an uncomfortable meeting with your local CIA or analog.
"once you have a rocket with movable fins"
Huuuuuuuuuuuuge project there to have something that works. In addition to the hardware, you'll need some pretty powerful and hard de develop controllers to guide it well.
"Some vision code" probably very hard hard to do correctly.
That's not a video idea, that's a multi year project
Absolutely NOT, that is how you get terrorism charges or arms manufacturing. That will DEFINITELY have your door kicked in by the feds of some sort ASAP.
Don't know how I missed this but wow what a massive development! Great video and explanation of the subject!
Thank you !!!
@@integzait seems i can not post my own comment. But anyway i'd like to have a 3D printer. Cheers from Italy
How far this channel has come is incredible. I can't wait to see where it is in 6 months.
Video idea: paper rocket engine.
It's about time the algorithm started offering me something extremely cool like this video. This was the most interesting and thought-provoking video I've watched in some time. As I started watching the video, my first thought was, "why isn't Elon Musk using this propellent?" Then just as quickly that question was answered to some disappointment, but my enthusiasm was then revived with the discussion of GEM.
Now I must watch so many more of your videos. Is it possible for you to get aerogel or graphene and do videos on them? I know videos are out there about each, but I am interested in what you would do with them.
The reason SpaceX wouldn't use such a fuel is because the rockets going to Mars need to be refueled on Mars and it is a lot easier to make methane and O2 than this stuff.
This channel is one of those that when a new video arrives , I must watch . Joel is a mad scientist teacher .
As Filonin2 said, SpaceX needed a fuel that could be manufactured on-site (methane), with Mars in mind (but has the added benefit of theoretically becoming greenhouse neutral here - or as close as possible to. Super important considering the number they hope to be launching. Rockets are "dirty", but there's not a significant number launched right now - jet's output dwarfs that of rockets right now)
They currently use RP1 ("rocket fuel", specially refined kerosene basically, aka "jet fuel") for their Falcon 9 rockets, but that burns a bit too sooty so isn't viable for "rapid reuse" that they're hoping for with Starship. Hydrogen is also out of the question for reusability (I can't remember the specific reason atm, probably volume - which is it's normal fault)
I'm not sure you can actually "do" anything fun with graphene. It's an incredibly weak material to work with (like a spiderweb), it's best use is as a coating for other substances (which is hard enough in a lab) to strengthen and improve their performance afaik
Ya, these guys seem really helpful, I’m hoping your videos and stuff start opening up opportunities up for them and get them more business.
Pop in a little energy capsule in the tank and just fly away, just like in the Jetsons.
I like all the exclamation points! It really makes this feel super exciting even though it is!
Video Idea: build small scale electric solid rocket that uses ESP and explore it's limitations
and compared with other solid propellants
Would be interesting to see if you could figure out a way to 3D print propellant or oxidizer. That way you could tweak the reaction surface area or reaction speed. No idea how useful it would be, but I'm sure you'll find a way to make it entertaining!
I could be wrong but I feel like I remember seeing him try that a few years ago
he did a video on it - its just ASA filamentent used for a hybrid engine
I'd imagine you could 3dp the hipep they mention in the vid, considering it's made with pva and that's a commonly used plastic for 3dp supports, it's also mixed from two liquids and then cast so if you couldn't use an fdm printer you might be able to use one of those syringe types. Not sure what the advantage to doing this might be however.
You could 3d print rocket candy or apcp propellant.
Intega, I've just found that in Ultimaker Cura slicer you can make molds by inporting a 3D model and in print settings selecting in "special modes" mold.
Your videos just keep getting better, this is by far the most interesting one!
This link is fake. Scam
Great video, I have learned so much! Thanks for going that far - literally - to entertain and teach us.
Topic idea: "How I made a 3D Printed Wind Turbine"
I arrived at this suggestion by using Bing-GPT to list all the topics that you have covered to date in order to creatively generate a topic that has not been covered yet, that best matches your overarching theme and would connect best with your audience. I wanted to leave little to chance because I blew my budget on a resin printer only to discover that a good Cartesian printer was what I really needed for my projects.
Hey! Make a solid propellant rocket with thin ESP layers in between to check if it stops burning the rest of grain. And how does it effects the overall thrust output if we want to burn the whole thing in one go...
Hoping this comment reaches you
Video idea: No blade less fan on a rc car with (some important like inserting the ionic thruster in the tube because some thrust going outwards)
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A good future topic would be a small ion thruster build for something like a CubeSat! Love the videos! Keep them coming!
Nile Red-Integza collab is in order I think. Nile red can produce the propellants, integza can produce the rockets. It's the perfect mating.
I'm a huge fan of "aerogels" and their theoretical and practical applications. Using this video, could you explore it's insulative properties as a shroud/protective shell for rockets?
Nice one dude u got a 3d printer with a smart comment. Wow.
We use aerogel all the time as firewall for race cars, I guess the conditions in rockets are even worse but the industry can justify the price more than us :D
I would have liked to see an energy comparison between all of these fuels. Something about energy density and things like that. If you have the time to do so, please c:
Gem has an extremely high ISP (specific impulse), but it needs to be noted that it also burns pretty hot... just something to keep in mind.
Video Idea: You should investigate into the Rutherford engine (electric pump liquid propellant) and the curie engine, which i believe is another monopropellant engine but is still in trade secret. The company is called rocket-lab, I'm pretty sure your familiar with it. Could definitely help us understand the incredible specs of the rocket-labs rockets. Big Fan, keep up the fabulous work!
Curie was originally a pressure-fed monopropellant engine, but has since been upgraded to use "green" hypergolic bipropellants. HyperCurie is another variant which is pump-fed (similar to Rutherford) for even better performance.
@@pseudotasuki Sounds interesting, thanks a whole lot for informing me.
Integza, this video was even better than your normal ones. THANKS
My suggestion would be the emergent Pi competitors. Since you do a lot with uCs and SoCs, a comparison of some of them would be great. There is actually a new competitor coming out soon called Lichee Pi 4A (it's a beautiful PCB too...) but a price hasnt been posted because its still in pre-order status. The thing that draws me to it is that it can come with upwards of 16GB of RAM with a quad core RISC-V proc at 1.8GHz and a dedicated quad core NPU and GPU for AI purposes.
Yeah, I actually have a Lichee Pi 4A 16GB, and even now the experience isn't all too great even now but I haven't updated it in a moment. The GPU, AI NPU, encode/decode are off the shelf components from Imagination and their IP subcontractor(s), which aren't exactly known for stellar driver support or documentation. Even now, there's an open source Imagination driver that only supports Vulkan, one GPU, and is allegedly really buggy.
I'm sure if I had a Pi4 or 5 I'd have a different opinion on how fast the LPi4a actually is, but the drivers are objectively awful.
Also, the LPi4a doesn't have full RPi style GPIO support unless you make a PCB with most of the PC/desktop style features ripped out (e.g. sound, wifi) and whip up a custom device tree to handle that.
this was really interesting integza! i tried to make my own but the jam just wouldn't light?? oj, thank you for another great episode
You should read Ignition by John D Clark. It’s a book on the history of rocket propellants (specifically abt 1930s-1960s). The book is very technical, but it’s really interesting.
I always hated science in school because it was not fun and complicated. If I had a teacher with the charisma of this guy and the ease of explaining the prosses I would have love science a lot more...
I think an attempt at a linear aerospike would be interesting. Thanks for covering ESPs, I'd never heard about them before.
Also thinking aerospike. So many ways to adapt old concepts with new materials
I would love to see you try your hand at building at building a scale rotary engine similar to what's in planes. Great video as always and thanks for making such complicated science and engineering understandable for more people!
You mean a radial? If there’s a plane with a rotary I want it
@@christopherbrooke2142 i think it was De dion bouton who first designed a rotary engine for airplanes but that one was never fitted into one. Then Augustin, Louis, and Laurent seguin built the gnome omega which was I think the first rotary engine used in production for aircraft
For your next video i think you can build a thrust vector control system and test it with your solid rocket engine prototypes .İt would be a good resource for model rocketry
Imagine Integza prototyping an idea from the comments, Elon Musk seeing it and liking the concept so much that he ends up using it in his designs. It would be absolutely crazy to see something Integza prototyped being used to help brings humans to Mars!
You should start building a test station for your rockets and a top ranking of it like in top gear with the cars. Have a great new year 🎉
I love how informational this is. Sad you didn't make anything but the info was nice. Hopefully you can make a liquid rocket with GEM soon
Hey not a super innovative video idea. But would you not try to do your own rockets with the different propellants that you show in this video. I think it would be really fun to watch.
Well this is a really fascinating marvel of chemistry.
Also lul at this guy encountering the problem of the ATF.
Also bonus points to this man for finessing the recipe out of the chemist.
Another amazing video. You make these projects all feel so approachable. Looking forward to next source of propulsion you try to command.
Video idea:
Build a real size car powered by one or more of your engines scaled up. Build the Engine out of some stronger (but still cheap like plywood) material.
Ps.: You could also make it a series where you test it on a small scale first so you get to know the charactaristics an problems and then scale it up bit by bit : )
Nice work on properly taking your time on explaining the subject, you videos always are very educative!
That aside i would love to see your little 3d printed steam engine blow up if you would overdrive it with a slower burning propellant like the sugar mixture! >:)
Please collaborate with electro boom and Rc Test Flight to make a plane that uses motors powered out of this amazing pink rubber like material! That would be amazing and a huge step for this community of a million of amazing people! I love your content and please keep this magic your doing up, as soon a new integza video comes out I know it’s something crazy but amazing!
This is my project idea.
Make to jet engines and add it to the top of the flying surf board and test it out
And tomatoes are disgusting
It would be cool to see a small scale version of those quad rocket powered vehicles with its layout configured sort of like an osprey but with two sets of wings one at the front and one at the back. You see this design a lot in futuristic movies so it would be nice to test if it is even possible and feasible. Also I'm new to this channel but this was by far one of my favorite rocket based videos I have seen yet on RUclips.
The way they are typically depicted (as vehicles capable of leaving and entering Earths atmosphere) would be extremely impractical in atmospheric conditions due to aerodynamic forces. If the ship was only ever going to be in space or was designed with the intent of hovering in place then the shape wouldn't matter to much but the reason rockets are designed the way they are is to minimize drag when trying to escape gravity (which is hard enough to do).
balancing thrust, esp with home-made rockets, means this is going to flip over. You need very fine and very fast control of thrust and angle to make this work.
I really enjoyed this video on electric solid propellant. It was really interesting to learn about this technology and the potential benefits it offers for rocket engines. Before watching this video, I had no idea that electric solid propellant even existed!
I have a suggestion for a future video: have you ever considered covering the use of electromagnetic fields in the combustion chamber as a way to improve efficiency? I think it could be a really interesting topic to explore, particularly in terms of how it might work alongside electric solid propellant.
Keep up the fantastic work!
I was thinking the same: "whaaaaat solid propellant you can control with electricity" and then "mmmh how much power would you need because batteries are 'heavy'". Ow would that be something for BPS.Space. doesn't he have a license for that kind of stuff?
Not exactly down your lane but when you guys were talking about his work with the Navy it made me think of self oxidizing propellant like what's used in torpedoes (Otto fuel 2 if I'm remembering correctly). That could maybe make for an interesting video, I would certainly watch.
INTEGZA - will you ever revisit your older videos? You left us all hanging and were waiting for many part 2's!
It will be so awesome if you could make rockets out of ''GEM'' propellant!
Video ideea: Try to create a rocket with one or more stages that can fly at the height of the clouds, tie a copper wire to it and when it rains, launch it into the clouds to short-circuit the sky, creating lightning on command! I've seen other youtubers trying it, but I'm sure youre the best person to make it have great results! Happy new year!
That looks really promising. Safe propellants for both main engines and thrusters, which only can be ignited by electricity (the solid version) or with a catalyst (fluid) and so can also be turned off whenever needed, the solid also having other fields of use. I want to hear more about this!
Congratulations to the winner of 3D Printer!!
Damn you are lucky.
A very well-shot and edited video. The demonstrations, other footage, interviews etc.
I should have subbed a while ago. tbh, I thought I already was. lol
Wondering if there was any kind of construction with the solid propellant that could be used in a booster?
I know a lot of boosters have a hollow core, so the gasses etc. can escape.
Maybe there's a way the HAN gel stuff can be sandwiched between thin metal conductive sheets around a hollow core, and then each "slab" of gel ignited (electrically) in turn?
(ElectronAsh patent pending.)
Video Idea: compare different methods of attitude/velocity adjustment (esp, ion, reaction wheel, thruster, etc) using a drone and/or a test rig that can measure thrust. Great video! This was something I've never heard of before.
Merry Christmas and a very happy New year to you sir, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for your video's and commend you on your delivery of them, I find your mix of knowledge and humour to be absolutely infectious and I actually learn more from you as a direct result of that very unique mix, I can't imagine a RUclips session now without visiting your site, I am curious as to the possibility of mixing potassium permaganate into a gel like substance, as it is a salt would it then be electrically conductive?
I just recently found this channel and think I’ve found a real gem.
You should totally 3d print a joy buzzer and rig one of those "laser" thrusters to go off with it :P
Not sure how feasible it would be to miniaturize the electronics but it would make for a pretty hilarious prank if possible.
Thrust Vectoring would be a neat idea to see in a video, might be a bit complicated to make with 3d printing, maybe use the lost pla method to get more resistant parts.
You should definitely make a thrust vector control, so that when you ultimately launch your own space program, you can also steer the rockets
Your advertising method really ''propels'' my motivation, thank you! 😁
Video idea: how about you make explosive tomatoes and put them somewhere so that people who like them will come to take them and BAM they just knew how much tomatoes are DISGUSTING, (But be sure that people won't get hurt).
😂😂😂 my gosh that's gonna be hilarious, he should definitely do that, I imagine people getting surprised by explosive tomatoes 🤣🤣🤣
@@thegrandperfect861 Yeah 🤣🤣🤣