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Questions about engines used in space that accelerate ions to create thrust.
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Can ion thrusters be scaled up?
All ion thrusters are quite small. Having read through the more approachable information about them, as they use physics pretty beyond me, I don't understand what it is about them that makes it neces …
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Where should ion drives be placed on a rotating space station of the lop-sided dumbbell vari...
I have been working on a model of a proposed artificial gravity facility by Joe Carroll, based on this paper. It is an initial concept paper and it doesn't spell everything out, so I am trying to figu …
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How large a body could a probe with ion engines land on and launch from?
Researching small asteroids up close by use of robotic probes seems like an appealing near-future mission. One option is a sample return mission that goes to one large body, another is a mission where …
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How quickly do the Van Allen radiation belts degrade solar panels?
I heard the other day that to take cargo from Earth to a Lagrange point or the Moon using solar electric propulsion would be a problem because the Van Allen radiation belts would degrade the solar pan …
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