NASA Extends Work on Hydrogen Fueled and Cooled Airliner Concept Written 24 July 2023
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The Cheeta concept is powered by fuel cells filed with liquid hydrogen from tanks above the cabin. | Credit: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; NASA
Aviation Week reported that NASA “signed a Space Act Agreement with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to extend work on a zero-emission aircraft propulsion concept that uses liquid hydrogen as both an energy carrier and a cryogen to enable superconductivity to increase efficiency and reduce weight.”
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