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You’d think we have ion thrusters or anti gravity devices with the money we’ve tossed at this thing. Hell we’d probably have a full blown moon base. But nope just another tribute to enshittification crap-it-all-ism. :inshallah-script:

Probably a windows update rendering the plane a brick midflight lol.

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Aren’t there actual ion thrusters on interplanetary probes?

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Not in interplanetary probes afaik, NASA tested them successfully in 1964, and Soviets used few hundreds of them for satellite stabilisation since 70’s. Tiangong station also use them for stabilisation.

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Yes, a few. Dawn, Deep Space 1, BepiColumbo, and a few others.

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