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ionic propulsion
- Propulsion by the reactive thrust of a high-speed beam of similarly charged ions ejected by an ion engine .
- See also solar-electric propulsion
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Brophy wants it to travel 20 times faster than the Dawn spacecraft’s ionic propulsion system—whose development he led—for a speed of around 200 kilometers per second.
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