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posted by mrpg on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the rise-raise dept.

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A Silicon Valley startup developing electric propulsion systems for satellites has raised $10 million and added the billionaire founder of LinkedIn to its board.

Apollo Fusion announced the $10 million Series B round July 11, bringing the total the company has raised to date to more than $18 million. The round was led by venture fund Greylock Partners, with one of the fund's partners, Reid Hoffman, joining the board.

Apollo Fusion will use the funding to scale up manufacturing and testing facilities for its electric propulsion system, called the Apollo Constellation Engine (ACE). The company believes that ACE is well-suited to serve the growing demand for smallsats with onboard propulsion.

Source: Electric satellite propulsion company raises $10 million


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @01:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @01:12PM (#708312)

    well if "losing mass" is the problem then just ride neutrinos.
    they are afterall rather "massless".
    using some electrons to make some muons and having these then decay back into electrons (to be recycled)
    and some neutrinos.
    muons are rather massive, like 207 times electrons, so caterpillar like having the spaceship accelerator tube crawl along the beam might give a push?

    if then the muon-decay neutrino beam could be made to point in one direction consistently, then
    the spaceship could just ride the newton impulse of the leaving neutrinos also.
    since the neutrinos are rather massless, it would not put the spaceship on much of a diet.

    the other question is however, since the neutrinos are so massless and hard to detect, on what are they going to push in the universe in general, since they seem to just fly to everything? it's like trying to push on a ghost or specter?