Questions concerning the use, design, and operation of electrically powered thrusters, such as ion, Hall Effect, magnetoplasmadynamic, and VASIMR thrusters, which use electrical power and electric or magnetic fields to accelerate reaction mass, typically with low thrust and high specific impulse.
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Electrical Propulsion Thrust
Is there an ultimate limit to the thrust outputs of electric propulsion thrusters?
Although they work best providing low amounts of thrust for long periods of time, could improvements in technology allow their thrust to compete with that of modern…
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Fuel used for electric propulsion?
What kind of fuel do electric propulsion spacecraft and satellites use?
Did any of them get electricity from bateries?
An ion engine creates thrust by accelerating ions using electricity. How is that electricity generated? By solar power?
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