Monday, February 13, 2012

NASA studying solar-electric propulsion for “space tugboat”

NASA studying solar-electric propulsion for “space tugboat”: "Last year, NASA announced it was seeking proposals for mission concept studies of a high-power solar electric propulsion (SEP) system that could be used in a "space tugboat." Such a ship would be used ferry payloads in low Earth orbit (LEO) into higher energy orbits, including geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) and Lagrange "

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