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

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...

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...

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

FEEP thruster was also slated for installation on Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer spacecraft, but the Gridded ion thruster was...

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

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

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...

hollow cathode. In a gridded ion source, DC or RF discharge are used to generate ions, which are then accelerated and decimated using grids and apertures. Here...

aerospace thrusters for small satellites, increasing the life of satellites and making them more affordable. The company builds gridded ion thrusters (NPT30)...

electrostatic. Types: Gridded ion thruster NASA Solar Technology Application Readiness (NSTAR) HiPEP Radiofrequency ion thruster Hall-effect thruster, including...

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

"Gridded Ion Thrusters". Beyond NERVA. 2019-04-06. Retrieved 2024-02-07. Herman, Daniel A. (2010). "Status of the NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster (NEXT)...

environments resulting in a TRL-6 design. DART demonstrated the NEXT gridded ion thruster, a type of solar electric propulsion. It was powered by 22-square-metre...

David; Benavides, Gabriel (2010). "Advances in Microcavity Discharge Thruster Technology". 46th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit...

and their propellants: Gridded ion thruster – using positive ions as the propellant, accelerated by an electrically charged grid NASA Solar Technology...

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...

Technology Application Readiness – Space propulsion system, electrostatic gridded ion thruster VASIMR variable impulse electric plasma engine Overview of the Development...

The Centaur upper-stage rocket The gridded ion thruster, a high-efficiency engine for spaceflight. A Glenn-derived ion engine was used on the NASA probe...

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

testing for the pressure vessel integrity, attitude control using the Draco thrusters, telemetry, guidance, navigation, control systems, and the PICA-X heat...

2022-10-09. Retrieved 2020-06-27. Michael Bretti. "AIS-gPPT3-1C Single-Channel Gridded Pulsed Plasma Thruster". Applied Ion Systems. Retrieved 2020-06-27....

most other ion thruster designs. First, it creates an accelerating electric field without inserting unreliable components like high-voltage grids into the...

existence of a double layer in such a thruster, even if such a double layer structure would be current-free, as both ions and electrons travel in the same...

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...

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

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

for use in CubeSats include Hall-effect thrusters, ion thrusters, pulsed plasma thrusters, electrospray thrusters, and resistojets. Several notable CubeSat...

designs relied on ion thrusters, which ionize either caesium or rubidium vapor and accelerate the positively charged ions through gridded electrodes. The...

thus can be considered as unconventional electric motors. Gridded electrostatic ion thrusters commonly utilize xenon gas. This gas has no charge and is...