Penny-Sized Ion Thrusters Could Steer the Satellites Of the Future
Rockets might be fiery fun, but they’re big, bulky, and heavy. Ion thrusters, sci-fi as they sound, are real and these penny-sized ones are probably the future of steering small satellites in orbit. Designed by an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, Paulo Lozano, these “microthrusters” fire beams of ions when they’re juiced…
