Field-emission electric propulsion
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Search complete. 22 mentions across 1 episode found for "Field-emission electric propulsion".
Sep 11, 2026
Building for the Demand That Hasn't Arrived Yet
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2:21Jonathan HuffmanGUEST
I run Orbital Arc Corporation.
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2:23Jonathan HuffmanGUEST
We're developing ion propulsion systems for satellites, specifically gas phase field effect electric propulsion, which means nothing to anybody other than me.
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2:35Jonathan HuffmanGUEST
But it's a variety of propulsion that allows you to use molecular fuels instead of noble gases.
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2:40Jonathan HuffmanGUEST
It allows you to achieve higher power efficiency.
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2:43Jonathan HuffmanGUEST
And running on a gas instead of a traditional liquid microspray field effect electric propulsion, microspray FEEP, thruster allows us to achieve, we think, higher power density, which will make that technology competitive with incumbent tech, which is a Hall effect thruster, flies on nearly everything that goes up into space now.
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3:05Jonathan HuffmanGUEST
So that's what we're up to.
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3:07Jonathan HuffmanGUEST
How did I get into this? Circuitously.
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5:52Jonathan HuffmanGUEST
Giant anime robots fighting aliens.