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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Image of the 150 W low-power Hall thruster for ... Program (200mN High Thrust Electric Propulsion System Development). (Paper Title: Predicting Performance of Hall Effect Ion Source Using Machine ...