Hackaday (unofficial) December 7, 2024 7:00pm Liquid Metal Ion Thrusters Aren’t Easy #techhacks #galinstan #gallium #highvoltage #ion #ionengine #liquidmetal #plasma #thruster #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Liquid Metal Ion Thrusters Aren’t Easy What do scanning electron microscopes and satellites have in common? On the face of things, not much, but after seeing [Zachary Tong]’s latest video on liquid metal ion thrusters, we see that…
Hackaday (unofficial) March 3, 2022 4:00pm Ion Thrusters: Not Just For TIE Fighters Anymore #engineering #interest #originalart #space #ionengine #nasa #probe #science #thrust #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Ion Thrusters: Not Just For TIE Fighters Anymore Spacecraft rocket engines come in a variety of forms and use a variety of fuels, but most rely on chemical reactions to blast propellants out of a nozzle, with the reaction force driving the spacec…
Hackaday (unofficial) February 14, 2022 4:00pm NASA Taps Lockheed to Bring Back a Piece of Mars #currentevents #originalart #space #exomars #hydrazine #ionengine #mars #marsascentvehicle #mav #rover #samplereturn #solidrocket #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 NASA Taps Lockheed To Bring Back A Piece Of Mars Since NASA’s Mariner spacecraft made the first up-close observations of Mars in 1964, humanity has lobbed a long line of orbiters, landers, and rovers towards the Red Planet. Of course, it ha…
