{"id":3927952,"date":"2026-09-15T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-new-design-for-a-plasma-engine-fuels-on-only-thin-air\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T01:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T06:00:42","slug":"a-new-design-for-a-plasma-engine-fuels-on-only-thin-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-new-design-for-a-plasma-engine-fuels-on-only-thin-air\/","title":{"rendered":"A new design for a plasma engine fuels on only thin air"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Choosing an orbit for a satellite always comes with trade-offs. Very low Earth orbit (VLEO), between 100\u2013450 km (62\u2013280 miles), has distinct advantages. Remote-sensing cameras can take better pictures, communications and radar require less power, and atmospheric drag automatically cleans up dead satellites.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-09-plasma-fuels-thin-air.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choosing an orbit for a satellite always comes with trade-offs. Very low Earth orbit (VLEO), between 100\u2013450 km (62\u2013280 miles), has distinct advantages. Remote-sensing cameras can take better pictures, communications and radar require less power, and atmospheric drag automatically cleans up dead satellites. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}