To: callisto
"...solar-electric propulsion, or more commonly, an ion engine..."
Wasn't this kind of engine used on a number of small probes? Indeed it seems to be a wonderful advancement of technology.
4 posted on
06/11/2002 6:50:00 AM PDT by
vannrox
To: vannrox
Deep Space 1 had NASA's experimental ion engine. I don't think we've sent any other spacecraft up with it also, but I could be wrong.
5 posted on
06/11/2002 7:04:50 AM PDT by
callisto
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