Use of a novel type of propellant for electric propulsion

Abstract

Depleted uranium hexafluoride (UF6) may be used as a propellant in an electric thruster. An electric thrusters may be propelled with a propellant including such depleted uranium hexafluoride, e.g., in a range of from 0.2 and 0.4% of 235U. The propelling with such a propellant may be conducted in outer space. The propelling may include producing cations and anions without two distinct propellants. The propelling may include, for example, a changing orbit, reorienting a satellite, interplanetary journeying, and/or avoiding an object in space.

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