A plasma propulsion engine is a type of electric propulsion that generates thrust from a quasi-neutral plasma. This is in contrast with ion thruster engines...

whatever their electric charge, and are specifically referred to as plasma propulsion engines, where the electric field is not in the direction of the acceleration...

accelerate the expanding plasma, generating thrust. It is a plasma propulsion engine, one of several types of spacecraft electric propulsion systems. The VASIMR...

air-breathing MHD propulsion (where ambient air is ionized) that is still limited to theoretical concepts and early experiments. Plasma propulsion engines using...

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. PPTs...

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

marine propulsion, and the rocket engine and plasma thruster used for spacecraft propulsion. Underwater jet propulsion is also used by several marine animals...

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

spacecraft also carried six Pulsed Plasma Thrusters (PPT) that served as actuators of the attitude control system. The PPT propulsion system was tested for 70 minutes...

describes it as "A new concept for in-space propulsion is proposed in which propellant is not ejected from the engine, but instead is captured to create a nearly...

(PIT) is a form of ion thruster, used in spacecraft propulsion. It is a plasma propulsion engine using perpendicular electric and magnetic fields to accelerate...

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

research (HEDP), laboratory astrophysics, and as a plasma propulsion engine for spacecraft. Plasma railguns appear in two principal topologies, linear...

the efficiency of another propulsion system, such as a VASIMR engine.[citation needed] To sustain a fusion reaction, the plasma must be confined. The most...

Atmosphere-breathing electric propulsion, or air-breathing electric propulsion, shortly ABEP, is a propulsion technology for spacecraft, which could allow...

was complete. Alongside it, RF-powered 10 kW plasma engines and krypton based low power electric propulsion were being pursued.[citation needed] With private...

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

antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion engine as its main form of propulsion External Pulsed Plasma Propulsion (EPPP), a propulsion concept by NASA that derives...

etc. may be the next industrial fields for induction plasma technology. Plasma propulsion engine at standard temperature and pressure at 10000 K Babat...

rocket propulsion used fission processes, research in the 2010s has moved to fusion approaches. The Direct Fusion Drive project at the Princeton Plasma Physics...

Antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion Helios (propulsion system) NERVA (Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application) Nuclear propulsion Peaceful nuclear explosion...

spacecraft propulsion system. The propulsion concepts that employ these mechanisms generally fall into four categories: solid core, gaseous core, plasma core...

spacecraft propulsion method running on electrical power by using high-voltage grid electrodes to accelerate ions with electrostatic forces. The ion engine was...

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

(launched) Resistojet rocket Ion thruster High Power Electric Propulsion Pulsed plasma thruster Hall-effect thruster Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster Microwave...

on Eurostar Neo bus. The satellite is designed to use PPS5000 plasma propulsion engine (developed by Safran and using xenon) to get to geostationary orbit...

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...

examples of "field propulsion", in which electromagnetic fields act upon a conducting medium such as seawater or plasma for propulsion, is known as magnetohydrodynamics...

2016-10-18 at the Wayback Machine Search engine for a large archive of technical papers on MPD thruster research MPD - MagnetoPlasmaDynamic Propulsion...

ionized air (only for use in an atmosphere) Electrodeless plasma thruster, electric propulsion using ponderomotive force Electrostatic ion thruster, using...