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Canberra engineer helps develop ‘game-changer’ iodine electric propulsion system for satellites – ABC News
For decades, space agencies have been searching for an alternative propulsion system to electrical ion engines powered by xenon…
A Canberra-based engineer has helped develop a world-first propulsion system hoped to better allow satellites to dodge space junk.
Key points:
- A Paris-based company has developed a propulsion system that uses iodine instead of xenon
- Spacecrafts require propulsion…
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