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An Australian student has developed a “new kind of ion space drive” that outperforms NASA’s fuel efficiency record
An Australian university student has reportedly developed a new kind of ion space drive that absolutely obliterates NASA's current fuel efficiency record.Ion drives are propulsion systems that basically work by throwing particles backwards really, really fast in order to propel a spacecraft forward.
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Very interesting but the only source being a student paper does make me suspicious.
It will be interesting to see if the results stand up to rigorous testing. I do like the concept that it has the possibility of using space junk to power the engine.
The title is a bit misleading, it sounds like some high school student created this. The student is a PhD candidate, yes he's still student but he didn't fall off the turnip truck last week either.