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Researchers suggest an ion engine could get a telescope to the Solar Gravitational Len point 81 billion kms from Earth in 13 years, and thus allow high resolution imaging of nearby exoplanets. (phys.org)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Why even publish that? You're not going to get better performance than the already unproven existing nuclear-electric systems any time soon.