Does that mean it leaves little droplets of iron rich liquid in it's wake? That then can impact other spacecraft at orbital speeds? That should be fine...
Quote from: Norm38 on 07/11/2017 07:50 pmDoes that mean it leaves little droplets of iron rich liquid in it's wake? That then can impact other spacecraft at orbital speeds? That should be fine...Would a nanogram of ferrofluid be particularly more damaging than a nanogram of some other ionic salt? Probably not. The exhaust particles should have enough velocity to escape earth orbit anyways.