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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)
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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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