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Liquid and solid propellant 🔥 #rocket engines feature low mass efficiency due to the thermodynamic limitations and extremely low efficiency at small thrust. The electric 🔋 thrusters do not pose limits on the propellant exhaust velocity and the propellant mass consumption may be very low https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02269-7
#ElectricPropulsion #PlasmaThruster #IonThruster #HallThruster
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Microwave thruster makes for clean-burning jet - Enlarge (credit: Dan Ye)
I usually approach papers on the subject of alternative thrusters with a... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1673371 #plasmathruster #plasmaphysics #aviation #science #physics #plasma