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title: Ion-Powered Rockets Could Take Us to Distant Planets — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/ion-powered-rockets-could-take-us-to-distant-planets/
date: 2018-08-15
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# Ion-Powered Rockets Could Take Us to Distant Planets

Chemical rockets got us to the moon, but we’ll need something with a little more oomph to catapult us into deep space. Here are our options so far.