noun
Meaning 1
a rocket with a thermal ion engine, whereby the ions are ionized by electricity from a nuclear reactor, and the fluid that is the source of the ions is heated by that nuclear reactor to increase specific impulse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: aerospace, astronautics, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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