Wednesday, October 24, 2018

bend ion thruster

This article about  space junk Two-way ion thruster
https://newatlas.com/two-way-plasma-thruster-space-debris/56548/
Schematic of a magnetic nozzle rf plasma thruster (helicon plasma thruster

raised a question:
why not curve both plasmas - the energy lost for bending the beams could be less than one direction :



The coil could be used as a magnet to pull debris into the mesh (or less likely to use mesh as a bouncer)...



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