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Re:Unhappy Elon Musk went on firing spree over slow satellit... by mrep on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @02:25PM (#18348107)
They plan on using ion thrusters: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/8iy7pv/why_is_space...
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Re:Unhappy Elon Musk went on firing spree over slow satellit... by rurban on Thursday November 01, 2018 @08:11AM (#18353168)
Ouch. At first I mixed it up with the EMDrive, which would not work. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325177082_The_Space...

But a simple ion thruster is fine. Those beasts are incredibly fast up there in low orbit. Something like one earth orbit in 2 hours.

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