This is What an Air-Breathing Electric Thruster’s Intake Would Look Like

This is What an Air-Breathing Electric Thruster’s Intake Would Look Like
By Evan Gough

Like all other technologies, satellite technology has grown in leaps and bounds in the past couple decades. Satellites can monitor Earth in increasingly high resolutions, aiding everything from storm forecasting, to climate change monitoring, to predicting crop harvests. But there’s one thing still holding satellites back: altitude. Satellites could gather more data at better resolutions …

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July 28, 2020 at 09:38PM
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