A Cubesat Will Test Water as a Propulsion System

A Cubesat Will Test Water as a Propulsion System
AP Photo/Dominic Hart, NASA Ames Research Center

Novel propulsion systems for CubeSats have been on an innovative tear of late.  UT has reported on propulsion systems that use everything from solid iodine to the Earth’s own magnetic field as a way of moving a small spacecraft.  Now there is a potential solution using a much more mundane material for a propellant – water.

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