00:00These are more efficient and robust. Here a magnetic field intersects the electric current to accelerate ions, that's the Hall
00:09effect.
00:10By the way, the effect is named after its discoverer, the American physicist Edwin Hall.
00:17Xenon is ionized, electrons are captured and ions are shot out.
00:22Here we're talking about ISP values between 1500 and 3000 seconds.
00:29So it's a bit less efficient, but the thrust is higher. But it's nothing groundbreaking either. Here you get millinewtons
00:37up to single digit newtons.
00:39The advantage here is that there's less wear and tear since no grids are necessary. We get back to that
00:46in a moment.
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