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Hall Thrusters

Photon Guy
in Astronomy and Cosmology

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1971.  

From an easily searched online source, which took me about 30 seconds to find:

Hall thrusters have been flying in space since December 1971, when the Soviet Union launched an SPT-50 on a Meteor satellite. Over 240 thrusters have flown in space since that time, with a 100% success rate. Hall thrusters are now routinely flown on commercial LEO and GEO communications satellites, where they are used for orbital insertion and stationkeeping...

 

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