Whoa, okay. Satellites have detected ion thruster activity, guys.
卫星已经侦测到离子推进器活动了 各位。
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Its ion thrusters put out less force than it takes to push a single key on a keyboard, but it accelerated to over 11 km per second by firing that tiny engine for nearly six years.
An ion thruster is a form of electric propulsion used for spacecraft propulsion. It creates thrust by accelerating ions with electricity. The term is strictly used to refer to gridded electrostatic ion thrusters, but may more loosely be applied to all electric propulsion systems that accelerate plasma, since plasma consists of ions.