How NASA Is Reinventing Space Travel

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Can NASA's latest breakthrough ion engine help take humans to Mars? The latest reports allude to "Deep Space Transport (DST) that provides habitation and transportation needs for crew into deep space including supporting human Mars-class missions"

Errata:
- I said 725m/s for the speed of voyager - this speed is closer to 17km/s. Way off. Apologies this one slipped through the editing screening.

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00:00 NASA's Latest Ion Engine
00:32 Gridded Ion & Hall Effect Thrusters
1:58 Ion Engine Propellants
3:34 Ad Read
4:03 The Rocket Equation - The Basics of Propulsion
6:52 NASA's Advanced Electric Propulsion System & The Gateway Mission

#NASA #Breakthrough #engine #spaceexploration

Paper mentioned in the video: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20170009578
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