But to travel from low-Earth orbit (LEO) to farther orbits—or even the Moon—requires a different kind of ion thruster capable of achieving escape velocity and orbital capture maneuvers.

Recently he made an ionic thruster that not only looks amazing in the dark, but also produces a fair amount of thrust. Ionic thrusters are not in the same league as something like a ducted fan or ...

Imperial College is developing a rocket thruster called the Iridium Catalysed Electrolysis CubeSat Thruster (ICE-Cube Thruster) that is so small that it can only be fabricated using techniques ...

The distant and cold Voyager 1 spacecraft did a clever thruster trick to help it phone home. Voyager 1, the most distant human object that is now flying through interstellar space, had thruster ...

"The thruster gets weaker and weaker and allows less propulsion." That propulsion is vital. Even a slight misalignment of the antennas could sever contact between the spacecraft and Earth ...

Starfish had to abandon its plan to regroup and attempt a rendezvous when the Otter Pup satellite’s electric propulsion thruster suffered an anomaly and could no longer function. “We ...

In addition, Professor Choe explained, "The Hall thruster for the cube satellite developed using AI techniques in collaboration with Cosmo Bee Co., Ltd., an electric propulsion specialist and a ...

Engineers switched again to the trajectory correction thruster set in 2018 when the second set also appeared clogged. But when the team recently checked on the status of Voyager’s trajectory ...

But the team watched the data stream in, showing the temperature of the thruster heaters rising dramatically, and knew it had worked. “It was such a glorious moment. Team morale was very high ...

A ground test of the Microwave Electrothermal Thruster (MET) successfully demonstrated on the Vigoride-5 vehicle. Credit: Momentus WASHINGTON — In-space transportation company Momentus announced ...