Space Flight
Space
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Geostationary Satellites and Electric Propulsion Systems
Electric propulsion systems can give four years of station keeping. In space there is no friction so if you give a little bit of force things keep accelerating. The engine for epicolumbo were actually designed in the UK and for me it means a lot personally because my father was involved in these engines very very early stage as a physicist 50 years ago at the time of the moon landing.
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