The Air Force has the stated goal of gaining and retaining space dominance to protect US interests in all parts of the world. This will require large numbers of new satellites with uninterrupted, all weather coverage of the Earth's surface. To provide these capabilities at reasonable cost, new propulsion technologies, which utilize fuel more efficiently, are being developed. These propulsion technologies use electrical energy to accelerate plumes of ions and electrons to more efficiently propel satellites thus lowering the cost to maintain and launch these spacecraft vital to our national interests.


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