Comment by Symmetry
8 years ago
Electric thrusters have a low thrust to weight ratio but there's nothing stopping you, in theory, from just scaling up. The ISS only experiences a little drag so an electric drive trying to zero that out doesn't need a huge thrust. There's some interest in adapting VASIMR for ISS station keeping. It would work, in theory, to just put a large number of Hall effect thrusters on the back but the piping would be infeasible.
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