Iodine is the fuel in a new way to propel satellites.
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This video features Sir Martyn Poliakoff from the University of Nottingham.

More on the Iodine propulsion can be found at https://www.thrustme.fr

Paper... In-orbit demonstration of an iodine electric propulsion system: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...

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