Monday, March 5, 2018

World-first firing of air-breathing electric thruster

05-03-2018 09:59 AM CET


In a world-first, an ESA-led team has built and fired an electric thruster to ingest scarce air molecules from the top of the atmosphere for propellant, opening the way to satellites flying in very low orbits for years on end.

 

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