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Not Science Fiction: Electric Propulsion Comes of Age With Psyche Mission to an Asteroid:
Psyche's Hall thrusters will be the first to be used beyond lunar orbit, demonstrating that they could play a role in supporting future missions to deep space. The spacecraft is set to launch in August 2022 and its super-efficient mode of propulsion uses solar arrays to capture sunlight that is converted into electricity to power the spacecraft's thrusters. The thrusters work by turning xenon gas, a neutral gas used in car headlights and plasma TVs, into xenon ions. As the xenon ions are accelerated out of the thruster, they create the thrust that will propel the spacecraft.
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Electric Propulsion Comes of Age with Psyche Mission to an Asteroid
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 22 2021, @06:05PM (1 child)
Maybe the Church of Scientology can help? They could harness the power of Xenu farts!
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/southpark/images/e/e6/Xenu.png/revision/latest?cb=20170329123459 [nocookie.net]
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday November 22 2021, @08:51PM
I don't have a source that I can sight, but isn't Xenu even more rare and harder to find than Xenon?
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