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Field-emission electric propulsion

Field-emission electric propulsion

Search complete. 22 mentions across 1 episode found for "Field-emission electric propulsion".

Sep 11, 2026

Jonathan HuffmanGUEST
2:21
I run Orbital Arc Corporation.
Jonathan HuffmanGUEST
2:23
We're developing ion propulsion systems for satellites, specifically gas phase field effect electric propulsion, which means nothing to anybody other than me.
Jonathan HuffmanGUEST
2:35
But it's a variety of propulsion that allows you to use molecular fuels instead of noble gases.
Jonathan HuffmanGUEST
2:40
It allows you to achieve higher power efficiency.
Jonathan HuffmanGUEST
2:43
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.
Jonathan HuffmanGUEST
3:05
So that's what we're up to.
Jonathan HuffmanGUEST
3:07
How did I get into this? Circuitously.
Jonathan HuffmanGUEST
5:52
Giant anime robots fighting aliens.

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