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A Stuttgart doctoral thesis ran a plasma thruster on simulated very-low-orbit air
Francesco Romano's design collects the residual air that drags satellites down and turns it into plasma, and his models put indefinite flight between 190 and 250 kilometres inside a standard satellite's power budget.
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