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...
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The gridded ion thruster is a common design for ion thrusters, a highly efficient low-thrust spacecraft propulsion method running on electrical power...
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The NASA Evolutionary Xenon Thruster (NEXT) project at Glenn Research Center is a gridded electrostatic ion thruster about three times as powerful as the...
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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...
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Plasma propulsion engine (redirect from Plasma thruster)
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...
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Electrostatic ion thruster, using high-voltage electrodes Hall effect thruster, a type of ion thruster Ion thruster, using beams of ions accelerated electrically...
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beams of ions accelerated electrically Hall-effect thruster, a type of ion thruster Pulsed inductive thruster, a pulsed form of ion thruster Magnetoplasmadynamic...
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charge carriers. Current EHD thrusters are far less efficient than conventional engines. An MIT researcher noted that ion thrusters have the potential to be...
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Plasma Thruster (SPT) and Thruster with Anode Layer (TAL) Colloid ion thruster Field-emission electric propulsion Nano-particle field extraction thruster The...
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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...
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Aerojet Rocketdyne (section X3 ion thruster)
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...
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A pulsed inductive thruster (PIT) is a form of ion thruster, used in spacecraft propulsion. It is a plasma propulsion engine using perpendicular electric...
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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...
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relative to ground. Ion wind is an electrohydrodynamic phenomenon. Ion wind generators can also be considered electrohydrodynamic thrusters. The term "ionic...
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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...
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Dual-Stage 4-Grid (category Ion engines)
The Dual-Stage 4-Grid (DS4G) is an electrostatic ion thruster design developed by the European Space Agency, in collaboration with the Australian National...
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NASA Solar Technology Application Readiness (redirect from NSTAR ion engine)
Application Readiness (NSTAR) is a type of spacecraft ion thruster called electrostatic ion thruster. It is a highly efficient low-thrust spacecraft propulsion...
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although a few have used electric propulsion such as ion thrusters and Hall-effect thrusters. Various technologies need to support everything from small...
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xenon-propelled ion thruster on a science mission, and validated a number of technologies, including the NSTAR electrostatic ion thruster, as well as performing...
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reactor is converted to electrical energy, which is used to drive an ion thruster or other electrical spacecraft propulsion technology. The nuclear electric...
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Field-emission electric propulsion (category Ion engines)
(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...
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Electrostatic motor (section Electrostatic ion drive)
the spacecraft electrostatic ion drive thruster where forces and motion are created by electrostatically accelerating ions. An electrostatic motor is based...
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Double Asteroid Redirection Test (section Ion thruster)
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...
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this application tends to be a low-volatility ionic liquid. Like other ion thrusters, its benefits include high efficiency, thrust density, and specific...
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Atmosphere-breathing electric propulsion (redirect from Air-breathing ion thruster)
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...
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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...
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Rocket propellant (section Ion thruster)
technologies Category:Rocket fuels Comparison: Aviation fuel Nuclear propulsion Ion thruster Crawford burner McGowen, Tom (2008). Space Race: The Mission, the Men...
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Reactionless drive (redirect from Oscillation thruster)
"linear oscillating mechanism" reactionless drive; the gyroscopic inertial thruster is perhaps the best known example of a "rotating mechanism" reactionless...
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positive ions accelerated using high-voltage electrodes HiPEP – using positive ions as the propellant, created using microwaves Radiofrequency ion thruster –...
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Electrostatic generator (section Gridded 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...
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