Youtube channel Freethink spent a day at the MIT Space Propulsion Lab to learn about electrospray thrusters and witness one of the first end-to-end demonstrations of the staged propulsion system that will launch to orbit equipped with a total of 24 MIT-built electrospray thrusters in the coming years. The 14-minute mini documentary features SPL Director Prof. Paulo Lozano and PhD students Gustav Pettersson and Mia Bruno.
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