[piytar]

Inspired by Star Trek, as is a lot of our current tech.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

A 99 cent can of Baked Beans might work as well.

“In space, no one can hear you toot”.

[cpdiii]

Solar sails are the easy solution. Turn the sail 90 degrees to the sun to boost velocity. Turn the sail oblique to the sun when it would decrease velocity. The sails could be solar cells that power the satellite. This would be very easy engineering.

[Bonemaker]

Anybody else have the same instant sick thought as to the term “electric thruster”?

[blueplum]

does the exhaust reconstitute into air molecules?

[Jim Noble]

We only have one atmosphere.

Could this eventually deplete or injure it?

[C210N]

Oh wonder of wonders... will be a big boon to transforming the earth into a Disco.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Air-Breathing Electric Thruster