The Japanese company touts water-based thrusters as cheap, easy to handle and environmentally friendly.
Credit: Pale Blue
LOGAN, Utah–Water-based thruster specialist Pale Blue plans to demonstrate an ion thruster in early 2025. The Japanese company has delivered its water-based ion thruster demonstrator to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), which will fly it as a payload on a spacecraft, says Jun Asakawa...
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