A penny-sized invention by MIT scientists dubbed a mini-thruster, may be able to propel tiny satellites into space. Here’s the inventor of the mini-thruster with more.
“If you want to launch something like this, it’s very cheap. But it’s very limited in what you can do with it. You need an engine to make this run from one place to another.”
The mini-thruster relies on ion beams to produce puffs of charged particles to propel the small satellites. Gizmodo writes…
“In contrast to traditional rockets, ion thrusters don’t provide a whole lot of thrust, but you don’t need much in space.
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