Charged Up: Electric Rockets Are Set to Transform Space Flight
Technologist, 23 February 2012
http://www.txchnologist.com/2012/charged-up-electric-rockets-are-set-to-transform-space-flight
As a result rocket scientists are increasingly turning to electric rockets, which accelerate propellants out the back end using solar-powered electromagnetic fields rather than chemical reactions. The electric rockets use so much less propellant that the entire spacecraft can be much more compact, which enables them to scale down the original launch boosters.
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