The electrodeless plasma thruster is a spacecraft propulsion engine commercialized under the acronym "E-IMPAcT" for "Electrodeless-Ionization Magnetized...

Plasma Thruster) at Design Bureau Fakel thrusters with narrow acceleration zone, DAS (Russian: ДАС, двигатель с анодным слоем; English: TAL, Thruster...

electric currents in the plasma are induced by a rapidly varying magnetic field.[citation needed] Electrodeless plasma thrusters use the ponderomotive force...

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...

bench test of their MPD engine for long-distance space travel. Electrodeless plasma thrusters have two unique features: the removal of the anode and cathode...

the Mach effect, the quantum vacuum plasma thruster or various hypotheses associated with resonant cavity thrusters. Because there is no well-defined "center...

using the Lorentz force Electrodeless plasma thruster, electric propulsion using ponderomotive force Pulsed plasma thruster, using current arced across...

California, Princeton University's Electric Propulsion and Plasma Dynamics Lab (EPPDyL) (where MPD thruster research has continued uninterrupted since 1967), and...

double-layer thruster (HDLT) is a type of plasma thruster, which ejects ionized gas at high velocity to provide thrust to a spacecraft. In this thruster design...

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

RAIR consists of three subsystems: a fusion reactor, a scoop field, and a plasma accelerator. Fuel is launched ahead of the ship with the accelerator. The...

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...

accelerator grid prevents electrons of the beam plasma outside the thruster from streaming back to the discharge plasma. This can fail due to insufficient negative...

potential virtual plasma propellant, could not account for thrust in any isolated, closed electromagnetic system such as a quantum vacuum thruster. In 2015, physicists...

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

Types: Electrodeless plasma thruster Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster Pulsed inductive thruster Pulsed plasma thruster Helicon Double Layer Thruster Magnetic...

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

as thrusters are: Cold gas thruster Electrohydrodynamic thruster, using ionized air (only for use in an atmosphere) Electrodeless plasma thruster, electric...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

needed] Plasma propulsion engines Magnetoplasmadynamic thrusters Electrodeless plasma thrusters Pulsed inductive thrusters Pulsed plasma thrusters Variable...

expand through the magnetic nozzle and beyond, and thus, function as an ion thruster. The construction of the experimental research device and most of its early...

propulsion, where a broad range of devices (HiPEP, some ion thrusters, or electrodeless plasma thrusters),[citation needed] for particle accelerators, on-line...

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

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

is used by an electrically powered rocket engine, such as an ion thruster or plasma propulsion engine. Usually, these schemes assume either solar panels...

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