Iodine Offers Advantages Over Xenon For Electric Propulsion
Credit: Busek Co.
A high-efficiency radio-frequency (RF) ion microthruster in development could give engineers another approach to solar-electric propulsion (SEP) technology for deep-space exploration, particularly for the tiny CubeSat-based probes just coming into their own. While large-scale SEP is considered...
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