Plasma propulsion with Macka B in the background. Needs a little shake to get started. At full vacuum, there aren't enough ions to push it round; nevertheless, a Nostrian student mentioned 'reactionless thrust' a few months ago, something that I used to be really interested in, so I plan to put an old electrostatic motor in a vacuum chamber to see if 'reactionless thrust' is still science fiction.
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Did you make that ?
not sure what will come out from this experience..
Powerful🚀
I love science
How is propulsion via ions reactionless?
I don't get how this is reactionless, please explain further because this is pretty cool!
It isn't reactionless. It's the opposite. It obeys Newton
Interesting and cool concept. So not really reactionless, but rather using the environment fluid/gas as reaction mass like a good old propeller?
Nevertheless a really fascinating experiment =)
Would you be interested in collecting data about the rotation rates dependent on pressure and voltage?