Advanced Thruster Enables New Cubesat Apps
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Credit: Busek Co.
Busek, a spacecraft-thruster shop in Natick, Massachusetts, has delivered a new kind of technology to NASA for testing that could increase the utility of cubesats dramatically. The basic concept of its electrospray thruster—use high voltage to accelerate charged heavy molecules for thrust—was...
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