To: RightWhale; Gondring
This was not the first ion motor to fly. There are many ion rockets in space these days. We are using them for attitude control.
62 posted on
09/03/2006 9:39:17 AM PDT by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: RadioAstronomer
There are many ion rockets in space these days. We are using them for attitude control. I resent the implicatiom that if I DON'T have an ion thruster, I might have a bad attitude!
73 posted on
09/03/2006 11:05:11 AM PDT by
longshadow
(FReeper #405, entering his ninth year of ignoring nitwits, nutcases, and recycled newbies)
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