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New study demonstrates iodine as satellite propellant... in space

Dante Alighieri
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costings

there is a Wikipedia page on this topic.

Data is older but indicated Iodine ~$30-35 and borne out by current googling, and a cost for Krypton of ~$290/kg at the same time frame which looks more realistic to me. YMMV

So cost saving on propellant and likely big reduction in thruster weight/volume. Win/Win

All we need now is one with a charged field to ingest orbital debris and a scheme to atomise it for thrust; mk2 tracks down debris to ingest and declutters LEO

Mines the one with the psychoactive substance -->

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