Chemical rocket engines provide huge thrust but are thirsty when it comes to fuel. Ion engines won’t get you out of Earth’s gravity well, nor do they work in the atmosphere, but become useful ...

So the ion engine is just using electricity to create thrust exhaust instead of burning rocket fuel. The downside is that the thrust is very tiny. The upside is that, in space, that tiny thrust ...

Scientists have figured out how to create a new ion engine that uses 100 million times less fuel than a chemical rocket. Though the device is a lot less powerful, it could some day be a cost ...

The key to the endurance of ion-propelled spacecraft lies in their low fuel consumption. Dawn only requires 250 grams of xenon to fire for 24 hours. At the end of the mission, the engines will have ...

Unlike chemical rockets that throw out gasses for propulsion, ion engines are powered by individual atoms, which makes them ...

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