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Satellites That Can Fit In Your Pocket - Amazing Spaceships In Small Packages

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Scott Manley covers the PocketQube Workshop in Glasgow and highlights a solid-state vacuum-arc thruster presented there. He describes the anode-cathode design that ablates solid metal into plasma puffs, notes the ~1 W for 1 day ≈ +1 km altitude claim, and shows the compact form factor suitable for 1P PocketQubes.

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