Student-led teams aren’t the only ones testing out novel electric propulsion techniques recently. Back in November, a company called Exotrail successfully tested a completely new kind of electric propulsion system in space—a small Hall-effect thruster.
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Source:
https://phys.org/news/2021-01-cubesat-hall-effect-thruster-space.html