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 ...

When [Jay Bowles] demoed his first-generation ion ... the high-voltage powerplant to use, but [Jay] was clearly onto something. Fast forward six months, and he’s back with his Mark II thruster.

and to develop high-efficiency, low-power Hall thrusters. This AI technique can be applied not only to Hall thrusters, but also to the research and development of ion beam sources used in various ...

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 ...

Rubidium could be the next key player in oxide-ion conductors. Researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo have discovered a ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...