An ion thruster, ion drive, or ion engine is a form of electric propulsion used for spacecraft propulsion. An ion thruster creates a cloud of positive...

The gridded ion thruster is a common design for ion thrusters, a highly efficient low-thrust spacecraft propulsion method running on electrical power...

The NASA Evolutionary Xenon Thruster (NEXT) project at Glenn Research Center is a gridded electrostatic ion thruster about three times as powerful as the...

Hall-effect thruster (HET) is a type of ion thruster in which the propellant is accelerated by an electric field. Hall-effect thrusters (based on the...

quasi-neutral plasma. This is in contrast with ion thruster engines, which generate thrust through extracting an ion current from the plasma source, which is...

Electrostatic ion thruster, using high-voltage electrodes Hall effect thruster, a type of ion thruster Ion thruster, using beams of ions accelerated electrically...

beams of ions accelerated electrically Hall-effect thruster, a type of ion thruster Pulsed inductive thruster, a pulsed form of ion thruster Magnetoplasmadynamic...

charge carriers. Current EHD thrusters are far less efficient than conventional engines. An MIT researcher noted that ion thrusters have the potential to be...

Plasma Thruster (SPT) and Thruster with Anode Layer (TAL) Colloid ion thruster Field-emission electric propulsion Nano-particle field extraction thruster The...

A pulsed inductive thruster (PIT) is a form of ion thruster, used in spacecraft propulsion. It is a plasma propulsion engine using perpendicular electric...

demonstration on a new X3 ion thruster, which is a central part of the XR-100 system for the NextSTEP program. The X3 ion thruster was designed by the University...

a thruster efficiency of 61.99% in 2019, corresponding to a specific impulse of Isp = 4665 s and 2.75 N of thrust. Hall effect thruster Ion thruster Magnetohydrodynamics...

relative to ground. Ion wind is an electrohydrodynamic phenomenon. Ion wind generators can also be considered electrohydrodynamic thrusters. The term "ionic...

Like most ion propulsion devices, the HDLT is a low-thrust, high–specific-impulse (high-Isp) thruster. A prototype 15 cm diameter thruster, operated in...

A pulsed plasma thruster (PPT), also known as a Pulsed Plasma Rocket (PPR), or as a plasma jet engine (PJE), is a form of electric spacecraft propulsion...

The Dual-Stage 4-Grid (DS4G) is an electrostatic ion thruster design developed by the European Space Agency, in collaboration with the Australian National...

There are many ion beam sources, some derived from the mercury vapor thrusters developed by NASA in the 1960s. The most widely used ion beams are of singly-charged...

although a few have used electric propulsion such as ion thrusters and Hall-effect thrusters. Various technologies need to support everything from small...

xenon-propelled ion thruster on a science mission, and validated a number of technologies, including the NSTAR electrostatic ion thruster, as well as performing...

assumption that the initial velocity of ions was zero. This assumption, however, is not applicable to ion thrusters operating in low Earth orbit, where ambient...

reactor is converted to electrical energy, which is used to drive an ion thruster or other electrical spacecraft propulsion technology. The nuclear electric...

Application Readiness (NSTAR) is a type of spacecraft ion thruster called electrostatic ion thruster. It is a highly efficient low-thrust spacecraft propulsion...

needed to power the NASA Evolutionary Xenon Thruster–Commercial (NEXT-C) engine. Early tests of the ion thruster revealed a reset mode that induced higher...

(FEEP) is an advanced electrostatic space propulsion concept, a form of ion thruster, that uses a liquid metal as a propellant – usually either caesium, indium...

the spacecraft electrostatic ion drive thruster where forces and motion are created by electrostatically accelerating ions. An electrostatic motor is based...

technologies Category:Rocket fuels Comparison: Aviation fuel Nuclear propulsion Ion thruster Crawford burner McGowen, Tom (2008). Space Race: The Mission, the Men...

this application tends to be a low-volatility ionic liquid. Like other ion thrusters, its benefits include high efficiency, thrust density, and specific...

"linear oscillating mechanism" reactionless drive; the gyroscopic inertial thruster is perhaps the best known example of a "rotating mechanism" reactionless...

positive ions accelerated using high-voltage electrodes HiPEP – using positive ions as the propellant, created using microwaves Radiofrequency ion thruster –...

directly. Examples are ionizers and ESD guns. An electrostatic vaneless ion wind generator, the EWICON, has been developed by The School of Electrical...