ESA-led team test fires air-breathing electric thruster for satellites
 

https://c.slashgear.com/wp-content/u...-1-575x383.jpgA team of researchers led by the ESA have fired a new type of thruster that could allow satellites to fly in very low Earth orbits for years at a time. The new thruster is an air-breathing ion thruster. It can slurp up the scant amount air molecules that are very high up in the atmosphere and use that air … Continue readinghttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slashgear/~4/OoYsccKRyls

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