Comment on Electric Propulsion Magnets Ready for Space Tests
frezik@midwest.social 1 month ago
Read the article, but didn’t see anything about how much thrust is expected. Guessing this is going to be a better ion engine of low thrust/high specific impulse. Which is useful, but mostly for robots.
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
They are also useful for maintaining orbits (like the ISS), and could potentially be useful in long duration missions such as manned interplanetary transfers. If it takes months to get to Mars anyway, low thrust won’t matter if it means you get more total delta-v, and able to reduce the travel duration anyway