Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) is a solar electric propulsion system for spacecraft that is being designed, developed and tested by NASA and...
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System. An example of work on this type of technology is Advanced Electric Propulsion System. The NASA Solar Technology Application Readiness (NSTAR)...
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Ion thruster (redirect from Xenon Ion Propulsion System)
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 ions...
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Spacecraft electric propulsion (or just electric propulsion) is a type of spacecraft propulsion technique that uses electrostatic or electromagnetic fields...
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Hall-effect thruster (category Magnetic propulsion devices)
In spacecraft propulsion, a Hall-effect thruster (HET) is a type of ion thruster in which the propellant is accelerated by an electric field. Hall-effect...
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A nuclear electric rocket (more properly nuclear electric propulsion) is a type of spacecraft propulsion system where thermal energy from a nuclear reactor...
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Atmosphere-breathing electric propulsion, or air-breathing electric propulsion, shortly ABEP, is a propulsion technology for spacecraft, which could allow...
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Marine propulsion is the mechanism or system used to generate thrust to move a watercraft through water. While paddles and sails are still used on some...
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Laser propulsion is a form of beam-powered propulsion where the energy source is a remote (usually ground-based) laser system and separate from the reaction...
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Lunar Gateway (section Power and propulsion)
Hall-effect thrusters and three 12 kW NASA/Aerojet Rocketdyne Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) Hall-effect thrusters for a total engine output fractionally...
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Power and Propulsion Element (PPE), previously known as the Asteroid Redirect Vehicle propulsion system, is a planned solar electric ion propulsion module...
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Field-emission electric propulsion (FEEP) is an advanced electrostatic space propulsion concept, a form of ion thruster, that uses a liquid metal as a...
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Spacecraft propulsion is any method used to accelerate spacecraft and artificial satellites. In-space propulsion exclusively deals with propulsion systems used...
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current-based drivetrain systems for electric vehicles. It offers AC-induction traction motors. The company produces electric vehicle drive systems featuring high...
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There are numerous versions of vehicle propulsion systems. Many of those came into fruition due to need for cleaner vehicles. Each of them might have many...
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An electric vehicle (EV) is a motor vehicle whose propulsion is powered fully or mostly by electricity. EVs encompass a wide range of transportation modes...
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The General Electric GEnx ("General Electric Next-generation") is an advanced dual rotor, axial flow, high-bypass turbofan jet engine in production by...
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spacecraft propulsion Hall effect thruster, a different type of ion thruster Advanced Electric Propulsion System – Spacecraft propulsion system by NASA....
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The Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) is a non-profit organisation that facilitates funding to UK-based research and development projects developing net-zero...
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provide propulsion for long periods without refueling. There are also applications in the space sector with nuclear thermal and nuclear electric engines...
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Field propulsion is the concept of spacecraft propulsion where no propellant is necessary but instead momentum of the spacecraft is changed by an interaction...
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turbo-electric propulsion system, with propulsion turbo generators driven by reactor plant steam. Among the pioneering users of true diesel–electric transmission...
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electric propulsion system as a means of accomplishing high delta-V missions such as an interstellar precursor mission in a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts...
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Magnetohydrodynamic drive (redirect from Magnetohydrodynamic propulsion system)
power plant. Electrohydrodynamics Lorentz force, relates electric and magnetic fields to propulsion force Dane, Abe (August 1990). "100 mph Jet Ships" (PDF)...
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Columbia-class submarine (section Propulsion)
permanent-magnet, radial-gap electric propulsion motors.[citation needed] The Zumwalt-class destroyer design switched from PMM to an advanced induction motor. In...
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Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (category Magnetic propulsion devices)
generating thrust. It is a plasma propulsion engine, one of several types of spacecraft electric propulsion systems. The VASIMR method for heating plasma...
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Busek (category Spacecraft propulsion)
the Power and Propulsion Element, Busek's 6 kW Hall thrusters will work in combination with NASA's Advanced Electric Propulsion System to provide orbit-raising...
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spacecraft propulsion NEXT (ion thruster) – Space propulsion system, a gridded electrostatic ion thruster Advanced Electric Propulsion System – Spacecraft...
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A hybrid electric bus is a bus that combines a conventional internal combustion engine propulsion system with an electric propulsion system. These types...
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Nuclear pulse propulsion or external pulsed plasma propulsion is a hypothetical method of spacecraft propulsion that uses nuclear explosions for thrust...
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