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

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...

electrically Hall-effect thruster, a type of ion thruster Pulsed inductive thruster, a pulsed form of ion thruster Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster, electric propulsion...

is also crucial to the operation of most pulsed plasma thrusters.[citation needed] Pulsed inductive thrusters (PIT) also use the Lorentz force to generate...

charged ion stream to prevent charging of the spacecraft. Pulsed inductive thrusters (PITs) use pulses instead of continuous thrust and have the ability to...

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

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

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...

Unit, which demonstrated the successful operation of a quasi-steady pulsed MPD thruster in space. Research at Moscow Aviation Institute, RKK Energiya, National...

Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster, electric propulsion using the Lorentz force Pulsed inductive thruster, a pulsed form of ion thruster Pulsed plasma thruster, using current...

nuclear electrical generation systems, including VASIMR, DS4G, and pulsed inductive thruster (PIT). PIT and VASIMR are unique in their ability to trade between...

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...

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...

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

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

concepts are the electrodeless plasma thruster, the microwave arcjet rocket, and the pulsed inductive thruster. The propellant, a neutral gas such as...

Nuclear pulse propulsion or external pulsed plasma propulsion is a hypothetical method of spacecraft propulsion that uses nuclear explosions for thrust...

doubled in comparison to a cold gas thruster using the same propellant. Solar electric propulsion Arcjet rocket thruster Jahn, Robert G.; Choueiri, Edgar...

the fusion runway pellets with a spacecraft moving at high speed. Laser pulses could be used to guide the pellets. If using impact fusion, the spacecraft...

plasma Induction plasma technology Pulsed inductive thruster High density fluorocarbon etching of silicon in an inductively coupled plasma: Mechanism of etching...

Antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion (also antiproton-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion) is a variation of nuclear pulse propulsion based upon the...

engines Magnetoplasmadynamic thrusters Electrodeless plasma thrusters Pulsed inductive thrusters Pulsed plasma thrusters Variable specific impulse magnetoplasma...

physics. The concept has at times been referred to as a resonant cavity thruster. The idea is generally considered by physicists to be pseudoscience. Neither...

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

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...

fusion instead of direct thrust. Spacecraft propulsion methods such as ion thrusters require electric power to run, but are highly efficient. In some cases...

A colloid thruster (or "electrospray thruster") is a type of low thrust electric propulsion rocket engine that uses electrostatic acceleration of charged...

magnetoplasmadynamic thruster sometimes referred to as the Lorentz force accelerator (LFA), and the electrodeless pulsed inductive thruster (PIT). Even today...

Microwave electrothermal thruster, also known as MET, is a propulsion device that converts microwave energy (a type of electromagnetic radiation) into...

hydrogen, hydrazine, or lithium; expelled using the Lorentz force Pulsed inductive thruster – because this reactive engine uses a radial magnetic field, it...