While it has been considered a promising candidate for a while, a commercial company called ThrustMe is now reporting that it has demonstrated an iodine-powered ion thruster in space for the first ...

That's why French aerospace company ThrustMe is pursuing a plan for better ion propulsion tech. They suggest using iodine instead of xenon. Iodine is incredibly prevalent, inexpensive and easy to ...

The process combines activated carbon, reverse osmosis, and ion exchange. If one doesn't get the iodine-131, two others have a chance to capture the radiation through other means. And that may be ...

The ion propellant comes pre-loaded in the NPT30-I2. When the engine is brought on line, the plug is heated and sublimates into gas. The iodine molecules are then given an electric charge and ...

In contrast, iodine is cheap, is abundant, and can be stored as a solid, enabling much more compact thrusters at less than half the cost of an equivalent xenon system. But iodine is also corrosive ...

Moreover, the solid electrolyte hinders the iodine ion shuttle effect, reducing zinc foil corrosion. Symmetric batteries employing this electrolyte demonstrate excellent cycle performance ...

This produces two free electrons as well as the ion required to form the plasma. A set of charged grids is then used to extract the iodine ions from the plasma and accelerate them in the direction ...