Take Orbion Space Technology, for example. They supply NASA with ion thrusters, and they are a game changer right out of a sci-fi movie. Read more: The 10 Most Iconic Airplanes In Aviation History ...
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When [Jay Bowles] demoed his first-generation ion thruster on ... of one section of the thruster, do you get a corresponding increase in velocity on the output side? The answer was no, indicating ...
On the face of things, not much, but after seeing [Zachary Tong]’s latest video on liquid metal ion thrusters, we see that they seem to have a lot more in common than we’d initially thought.