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I feel like I'm missing some key piece of physics here. This seems like an ion engine but with magnets propelling the exhaust rather than electric fields. Is t

I feel like I'm missing some key piece of physics here. This seems like an ion engine but with magnets propelling the exhaust rather than electric fields. Is that it?

handol 6y ago
That basic description already fits hall-effect thrusters. I think the idea here is not a new electric thruster but bleeding off plasma from a fusion reactor to power a rocket.