Iodine powers low-cost engines for satellites

Igor Levchenko () and Kateryna Bazaka ()

Nature, 2021, vol. 599, issue 7885, 373-374

Abstract: Solid iodine transforms directly into gas when heated — a property that has been used to create cheap, compact engines that could make large networks of small satellites commercially viable.

Keywords: Engineering; Space physics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1038/d41586-021-03384-8

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