A thruster glitch suffered this past April will delay the BepiColombo mission's arrival at Mercury by nearly a year, to ...

The ion thruster, fueled by xenon gas, ran for a total of 16,265 hours during the mission, providing a total change in velocity (delta-V) of 4.3 kilometers per second, the largest for any ...

When [Jay Bowles] demoed his first-generation ion thruster on Plasma Channel, the resulting video picked up millions of views and got hobbyists and professionals alike talking. While ionic lifters … ...

New rocket thruster could mean humans boldly go on never-ending space trips - The breakthrough could mean deep space exploration is no longer the stuff of sci-fi, according to University of ...

As NASA continues work to find a fix for the thruster issues that have afflicted Boeing's Starliner astronaut taxi, chances ...

Following a thorough evaluation of the available thruster options for our future Service Operation Vessels (SOVs), Louis ...

A cylindrical Hall thruster (CHT) is a type of Hall thruster designed for low power operations. Unlike conventional annular Hall thrusters, the CHT has a smaller surface-to-volume ratio that makes it ...

The X3 thruster, which was designed by researchers at the University of Michigan in cooperation with NASA and the U.S. Air Force, is a Hall thruster — a system that propels spacecraft by ...

The WTF-thruster consists of a closed microwave cavity that has a cut-off conical shape. The necessity for the conical shape is not explained. A bit of plastic is placed at the narrow end.

Diagram of a Class C Stellar Engine—to scale—built around a sun like star. It consists of a partial Dyson swarm composed of 5 Dyson Rings of solar collectors (the Class B component), and a large ...

Each thruster has a 20-cm exit nozzle, with an exhaust velocity of 2,300 meters per second. The system's hypergolic propellant allows the Dragon 2 to accelerate from zero to 100 mph in 1.2 seconds.