The helicon double-layer thruster is a prototype electric spacecraft propulsion. It was created by Australian scientist Christine Charles, based on a...

Helicon (physics), low frequency electromagnetic waves Helikon vortex separation process, used for uranium enrichment Helicon Double Layer Thruster,...

thrust magnitude and specific impulse values. A helicon double layer thruster is a type of plasma thruster that ejects high velocity ionized gas to provide...

Space Agency and Australian National University, who co-developed a double layer thruster. Some plasma engines have seen active flight time and use on missions...

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

impulse. If heated by 900 °C, specific impulse could be doubled in comparison to a cold gas thruster using the same propellant. Solar electric propulsion...

propulsion (where the helicon double-layer thruster and the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket both make use of helicons in their plasma heating...

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...

A magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster (MPDT) is a form of electrically powered spacecraft propulsion which uses the Lorentz force (the force on a charged...

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...

Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster Electrodeless plasma thruster Plasma magnet Electrothermal Pulsed plasma thruster Vacuum arc thruster Helicon double-layer thruster Arcjet...

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

around the debated issue of the existence of a double layer in such a thruster, even if such a double layer structure would be current-free, as both ions...

Orbits, the wingless electromagnetic air vehicle, and magnetoplasmadynamic thruster (which does use propellant). Electrohydrodynamics is another method whereby...

perhaps 1.3 to 1.5 N (0.29 to 0.34 lbf), making them useful only for thrusters. In order to increase the power for medium-duration missions, engines...

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

storable propellant after passing it over a catalyst bed. The power for the thruster comes from the high pressure gas created during the decomposition reaction...

Electric propulsion Helicon Double Layer Thruster Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster Nano-particle field extraction thruster Pulsed plasma thruster Space fission...

A cold gas thruster (or a cold gas propulsion system) is a type of rocket engine which uses the expansion of a (typically inert) pressurized gas to generate...

Electrodeless plasma thruster Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster Pulsed inductive thruster Pulsed plasma thruster Helicon Double Layer Thruster Magnetic field oscillating...

needed] Arcjets using DC current or microwaves Helicon double-layer thrusters Resistojets Electromagnetic thrusters, wherein ions are accelerated either by the...

of the NIAC. MagBeam is different from a traditional electrostatic ion thruster in several ways, the primary one being that instead of the fuel and propulsion...

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

An arcjet rocket or arcjet thruster is a form of electrically powered spacecraft propulsion, in which an electrical discharge (arc) is created in a flow...

The EmDrive is a concept for a thruster for spacecraft, first written about in 2001. It is purported to generate thrust by reflecting microwaves inside...

S2CID 250752052. See "Helicon Double Layer Thruster study[permanent dead link‍]", European Space Agency; "ESA accelerates towards a new space thruster" (2005) Alfvén...

A thruster is a spacecraft propulsion device used for orbital station-keeping, attitude control, or long-duration, low-thrust acceleration, often as part...

reach orbit. Well under a tenth of orbital velocity from a small rocket thruster is enough to raise perigee if a design prioritizes minimizing such, but...

Anflo, K.; Moore, S.; King, P. Expanding the ADN-based Monopropellant Thruster Family. 23rd Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites. SSC09-II-4...