[Brett66]

I was looking at the performance stats of Deep space 1 and it's engine could only generate 0.09 Newtons of thrust. 33.3 times the power of DS 1's engine! I wonder what a Megawatt class of engine would produce? Very impressive improvement for a second generation design. If they ever decide to send humans to Mars, I think an engine such as this would quell all talk of using chemical propulsion. Heck, I think this would be a good engine for an orbital transfer vehicle.

[Centurion2000]

I think an engine such as this would quell all talk of using chemical propulsion. Heck, I think this would be a good engine for an orbital transfer vehicle.

Of course this would be good for long range probes running off an RTG power source for a few thousand years, but serious thrust ?

Use an Orion drive, the radioactive way to fly.