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Electric/Krypton

Propellant

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Electric/Krypton propellant. An engine were krypton propellant is ionized and electrically accelerated to produce thrust. No electric engines reached the operational stage using it.

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  • NASA-400M NASA Cleveland electric/krypton rocket engine. Developed to investigate high-power, high specific impulse Hall thruster operation in 2004.
Engines
NASA-400M