A Hall thruster is a high-efficiency propulsion device using plasma that is used for various difficult space missions, such as SpaceX's constellation satellites, Starlink and NASA's asteroid probe, ...

Ion thrusters, in their various forms ... Issues with such designs include issues of high power draw and problems of dealing with waste heat. If these could be overcome, designs like a scaled ...

On the face of things, not much, but after seeing [Zachary Tong]’s latest video on liquid metal ion thrusters ... and tin — and an high voltage is applied between the liquid metal and an ...

A research team presents an AI assessor for Hall-effect ion thrusters, the engines of satellites and space probes.

Electrospray (ES) thrusters generate low ... Recent developments include nonmetallic ion sources such as ionic liquids (ILs), room-temperature molten salts, that support emission of heavy ions that ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Simulations of electric ion thrusters have been validated through experiments, addressing challenges in predicting thruster lifespan due to chamber wall effects ...

Electric propulsion is being increasingly used on space missions and could ultimately replace thrusters using ... despite moving at high velocity, the ion plume is pretty sparse.

But in traditional ion engines, sometimes called Hall thrusters, the constant bombardment of energized particles against the back wall of the engine gradually wears it down until the device shorts ...

The DLR-Institute of Aerodynamics and Flow Technology performs a lifetime qualification test of ArianeGroup’s radio frequency gridded ion thruster RIT2x in the Electric Space Propulsion Test Facility ...

A research team from KAIST Nuclear and Quantum Engineering presents an AI assesser for Hall-effect ion thrusters, the engines ...