The possibility of the controversial IVO Quantized Inertia drive on the Barry-1 satellite working has raised the question of could it be faked with a small Hall Effect Thruster ? I looked at the ...
The lower box is one the earliest spacecraft ion thrusters (from EOS circa 1962), and on top is a new arrival, a modern marvel from the SpaceX Starlink satellites used for on orbit maneuvering. SpaceX ...
An extrapolation technique aims to address the gap between Hall effect thruster performance in space and in laboratory ...
One of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Aces satellites is shown in the lower left corner deploying from the SpaceX Transporter-8 rideshare flight. Credit: SpaceX screenshot LOGAN, Utah ...
Professor Wonho Choe of the Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering developed an artificial intelligence technique that ...
Phase Four says it has built and tested a next-generation radio-frequency thruster for spacecraft that equals the performance of a Hall-effect thruster. The achievement, demonstrated over several ...
Amazon’s Hall-effect thruster fires up with a krypton glow during testing. (Amazon Photo) A month after the launch of its first prototype Project Kuiper satellites, Amazon reports that the spacecraft ...
HAWTHORNE, Calif., July 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Phase Four, a leading provider of next generation electric propulsion solutions for satellites, proudly announces the signing of a strategic cooperation ...
Phase Four, Inc. (“Phase Four”), the creator of the radio-frequency thruster for satellite propulsion, announced today its highly anticipated Maxwell Block 3 turn-key plasma propulsion thruster. The ...
TORRANCE, Calif., July 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- K2 Space Corporation, a leading innovator of high-power, low-cost satellites, today announced the completion of two major milestones on the path to its ...