Thrusters That Eat Teflon! | Pulsed Plasma Thrusters

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Pulsed plasma thrusters use the same stuff that’s on your frying pan to make spacecraft zoom around the universe. And they’ve been doing it since the 1960s.

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Sources:
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/fs23grc.html
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Images:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=11636
https://images.nasa.gov/details-KSC-20160908-RV-GMM01_0003-OSIRIS_REx_Launch_Broadcast_Ground_ISO-3126827.html
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