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Can the thrust of Ion Thruster be increased at the cost of speed?
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[QUOTE="gggnano, post: 6822872, member: 703320"] [B]TL;DR Summary:[/B] slower xenon intake, ions passing through medium, using 'top quarks'? Based on the little I know ion thrusters seem extremely impractical on earth, even because speeds over 20,000-30,000+km/h will result in immense friction and fire, so why not cut the high speed somehow and increase thrust which is abysmall? For example: the ions passing through a medium?? Wider nozzle? I'm sure these have been thought ad nauseum already and won't work but it's just so frustrating to be locked with such a high speed and almost no thrust. [/QUOTE]
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