France-based propulsion startup Ion-X announced Oct. 23 it will provide an upgraded version of its electrospray thruster to Univity, a three-year-old French venture planning 1500 small 5G broadband ...
The Xenon/Krypton facility is a 2-meter-diameter by 4-meter-long space simulation chamber for ground-testing flight-scale ion propulsion systems. The chamber is evacuated to ultimate pressure using ...
Electricity from the cells powers a krypton ion propulsion system so that each satellite can move to a designated spot in the constellation. SpaceX Consider this. There are just under 10,000 stars ...