Thrusters (spacecraft)
- 1 min read
- 1 chapters
Related on Lably
Through Spacecraft propulsion, Launch vehicle and Rocket engine
Some devices that are used or proposed for use as thrusters are:
- Cold gas thruster
- Electrohydrodynamic thruster, using ionized air (only for use in an atmosphere)
- Electrodeless plasma thruster, electric propulsion using ponderomotive force
- Electrostatic ion thruster, using high-voltage electrodes
- Hall effect thruster, a type of ion thruster
- Ion thruster, using beams of ions accelerated electrically
- Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster, electric propulsion using the Lorentz force
- Pulsed inductive thruster, a pulsed form of ion thruster
- Pulsed plasma thruster, using current arced across a solid propellant
- RF resonant cavity thruster, an electromagnetic thruster using microwaves
More in Space
NASAAmerican space and aeronautics agencyHubble Space TelescopeNASA/ESA space telescope launched in 1990European Space AgencyEuropean organisation dedicated to space explorationInternational Space StationModular space station in low Earth orbitSpace ShuttlePartially reusable launch system and space planeApollo program1961–1972 American crewed lunar exploration program