With TMOB now available to the public, the ION Price is cruising at the FIVE Dollars Mark

Your assessment may come true... I got a piece of the action trading at $7.17 last night when the push began...

The ION coin is based on the POS3 variant and provides staking via wallet or in a Masternode configuration with wallet containing 20,000 IONs

A sharp rise in the ION price with TMOB set to launch in less than a day

Hello ionomy Community,
  
The final countdown to the launch of The Moon or Bust is on!
Fuel up you rockets — the public release is scheduled for January 26, Midnight GMT (7PM EST).
    
  Navigate from Earth to Moon. Collect power-ups and boosts. Avoid the pitfalls of flight and space travel: aircraft, satellites, black holes, and more.


 Be the first to reach the Moon and win…. BIG TIME.

 Tilt and turn your way to the Moon and plant the flag to earn the grand prize: $5000 in ION.
 
Weekly tournaments pit players against each other to compete for prizes. Prizes are paid out in ION. That’s right: real cash for real gaming.  
 
Win ION: First tournament pays out Monday

The first tournament starts as soon as the game is available and ends every Sunday evening, with payouts on Mondays. That gives you two days to make it into the top 10 and win ION.
Good luck, cadets.
  
Yours in spaceflight,
 The ionomy Team

The countdown has begun and can be viewed at https://ionomy.com/ !!!

https://ion.community/topic/805/tmob-launches-in-two-days

Stage 3 was suppose to separate at $3.50 dollars and free fall back to earth...

Being that the pump from releasing the last news (Roadmap & Sponsor announcement) is over, I expect the ION Price to decrease..

Running out of fuel as the ION Price drops below FOUR Dollar Mark

Houston, How much fuel is left in stage 3 of the ION Rocket

ION Rocket cruising at FOUR Dollars

How Does an Ion Thruster Work?

An ion thruster ionizes  propellant by adding or removing electrons to produce ions. Most thrusters ionize propellant by electron bombardment: a high-energy electron (negative charge) collides with a propellant atom (neutral charge), releasing electrons from the propellant atom and resulting in a positively charged ion. The  gas  produced  consists  of positive ions and negative electrons in proportions that result in no over-all electric charge. This is called a plasma. Plasma has some of the properties of a gas, but it is affected by electric and magnetic fields. Common examples are lightning and the substance inside fluorescent light bulbs.

The most common propellant used in ion propulsion is xenon, which is easily ionized and has a high atomic mass, thus generating a desirable level of thrust when ions are accelerated. It also is inert and has a high storage density; therefore, it is well suited for storing on spacecraft. In most ion thrusters, electrons are generated with the discharge hollow cathode by a process called thermionic emission.

Electrons produced by the discharge cathode are attracted to the dis- charge chamber walls, which are charged to a high positive potential by the voltage applied by the thruster’s discharge power supply. Neutral propellant is injected into the discharge chamber, where the electrons bombard the propellant to produce positively charged ions and release more electrons. High-strength magnets prevent electrons from freely reaching the discharge channel walls. This lengthens the time that electrons reside in the discharge chamber and increases the probability of an ionizing event.

The positively charged ions migrate toward grids that contain thousands of very precisely aligned holes (apertures) at the aft end of the ion thruster. The first grid is the positively charged electrode (screen grid). A very high positive voltage is applied to the screen grid, but it is configured to force the discharge plasma to reside at a high voltage. As ions pass between the grids, they are accelerated toward a negatively charged electrode (the accelerator grid) to very high speeds (up to 90,000 mph).

The positively charged ions are accelerated out of the thruster as an ion beam, which produces thrust. The neutralizer, another hollow cathode, expels an equal amount of electrons to make the total charge of the exhaust beam neutral. Without a neutralizer, the spacecraft would build up a negative charge and eventually ions would be drawn back to the spacecraft, reducing thrust and causing spacecraft erosion.

The primary parts of an ion propulsion system are the ion thruster, power processing unit (PPU),propellant management system (PMS), and digital control and interface unit (DCIU). The PPU converts the electrical power from a power source—usually solar cells or a nuclear heat source—into the voltages needed for the hollow cathodes to operate, to bias the grids,and to provide the currents needed to produce the ion beam. The PMS may be divided into a high-pressure assembly (HPA) that reduces the xenon pressure from the higher storage pressures in the tank to a level that is then metered with accuracy for the ion thruster components by a low-pressure assembly (LPA). The DCIU controls and monitors system performance,and performs communication functions with the spacecraft computer.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/fs21grc.html

I don't think Offroad Heat has any real live maps in it. I think the levels are create with a map builder

Maybe this game has vehicles that are ION driven off-road on different planets

Current Ion Propulsion- Ion thrusters (based on a NASA design) are now being used to keep over 100 geosynchronous Earth orbit communication satellites in their desired locations,
 

I don't think Offroad Heat has any real live maps in it. I think the levels are create with a map builder

I believe it is going to have maps for Off-road adventures... Would be cool to see an Grand Theft Offroad... ionomy style