• Question: hi charlie. has any of your projects ever been used by NASA to send into space?

    Asked by iluvgok to Charlie on 20 Mar 2011.
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      Charlie Ryan answered on 20 Mar 2011:

      hi iluvgok again!
      No we aren’t currently working with NASA although we’d love to at some point! Currently though we actually have some competition from NASA, who are designing a rocket very similar to ours!! Actually this NASA rocket will get used in a few years to move a spacecraft called LISA pathfinder. This will be the first time that this type of rocket (called a colloid ion thruster) has been put into space.
      Thankfully though NASA’s design is very different from ours, with ours designed for propelling much smaller spacecraft (about shoebox sized). We hope to eventually put our rockets on a spacecraft in maybe five years if all goes well. That is quite a big IF though!

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