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propellantless en · ADJ

Etymology

From propellant + -less.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of propellentless.
    • A positively polarised tether in the solar wind can be used for efficient general-purpose interplanetary propellantless propulsion (the electric solar wind sail or E-sail), whereas a negatively polarised tether in LEO can be used for efficient deorbiting of satellites (the plasma brake). 2016, Pekka Janhunen, Jouni Envall, Petri Toivanen, Timo Rauhala, Edward Haeggström, Tor-Arne Grönland, “CubeSat testing of Coulomb drag propulsion”, in arXiv: