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The small Ion thruster that could change space travel - Orbit 10.14

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Natalya Bailey the Founder & CEO of Accion Systems joins us to talk about their very small yet incredibly powerful take on Ion thrusters. As these get closer to their theoretical maximum thrust, just a couple of the tiny units could perform all of the ISS station keeping needs! Or even send humans to Mars!

In Space News:* Potential habitability in Europa and Enceladus* Update on French Guiana Blockade* Atlas V aims for Tuesday Cygnus launch* NASA presents Deep Space Gateway and more SLS missions* Mars InSight seismometer passes major test

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Natalya Bailey the Founder & CEO of Accion Systems joins us to talk about their very small yet incredibly powerful take on Ion thrusters. As these get closer to their theoretical maximum thrust, just a couple of the tiny units could perform all of the ISS station keeping needs! Or even send humans to Mars!

In Space News:* Potential habitability in Europa and Enceladus* Update on French Guiana Blockade* Atlas V aims for Tuesday Cygnus launch* NASA presents Deep Space Gateway and more SLS missions* Mars InSight seismometer passes major test

TMRO:Space is a crowd funded show. If you like this episode consider contributing to help us to continue to improve. Head over to http://www.patreon.com/tmro for information, goals and reward levels.

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