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by mikewarot 920 days ago
Barry-1[1] manages to climb 100 Km higher in orbit without using propellant. Quantized Inertia, on which the purely electrical thruster is based, starts to draw interest.

You can follow along, watching the Semi-Major axis. There are other experiments on board, once those are complete, they'll be switching on in a month or so.

[1] https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/graph-orbit-data.php?CA...