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Since the days Tsiolkovsky, Oberth and Goddard started dreaming of space exploration more than a century has passed. Today, the majority of the people are using technologies which are based on space exploration such as satellite television or satellite navigation and the space business plays a very important role in daily life. But there are still a lot of challenging tasks to do and a lot more questions to answer.

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Hey, F.G. (2018). Introduction. In: Micro Newton Thruster Development. Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-21209-4_1

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