Category:Spacecraft propulsion

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There are many different methods of spacecraft propulsion used to change the velocity of spacecraft and artificial satellites. Each method has drawbacks and advantages, and spacecraft propulsion is an active area of research.

This category includes technologies and concepts related to spacecraft propulsion systems, but not specific examples of such systems (such as the Space Shuttle Main Engine).

The main article for this category is Spacecraft propulsion.

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Subcategories

This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.

A ► Air launch to orbit‎ (10 P) F ► Faster-than-light travel‎ (5 C, 6 P) N ► Nuclear spacecraft propulsion‎ (30 P)

R ► Rocket propulsion‎ (4 C, 26 P) S ► Single-stage-to-orbit‎ (28 P) ► Solar sailing‎ (1 C, 3 P)

S cont. ► Space elevator‎ (14 P)

Pages in category "Spacecraft propulsion"

The following 121 pages are in this category, out of 121 total. This list may not reflect recent changes (learn more).

A Aerobraking Aerocapture Aerogravity assist Air-augmented rocket ALICE (propellant) Antimatter rocket Arcjet rocket Avatar (spacecraft) B Beam-powered propulsion Bi-elliptic transfer Big dumb booster Booster (rocketry) Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program Bussard ramjet C Chemical Automatics Design Bureau Colloid thruster D Delta-v Delta-v budget Dual mode propulsion rocket Dual-Stage 4-Grid E Earth to orbit Electric sail Electrically powered spacecraft propulsion Electrodeless plasma thruster Electrodynamic tether Electrostatic ion thruster Enstrophy Expander cycle (rocket) Expanding nozzle Expendable launch system F Field propulsion Field-emission electric propulsion Fusion rocket G Gas-generator cycle (rocket) Gravity assist Gravity-gradient stabilization H Hall effect thruster Helicon Double Layer Thruster High Power Electric Propulsion HM7B Hohmann transfer orbit

H cont. Hybrid rocket Hypersonic speed I Ion thruster Ion wind L Laser broom Launch loop Lightcraft Liquid air cycle engine Liquid rocket propellants Lithobraking M MagBeam Magnetic field oscillating amplified thruster Magnetic sail Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster Magnetorquer Mass driver Membrane mirror Monopropellant rocket Mary Sherman Morgan MS-IVB Multistage rocket N Nano-particle field extraction thruster Nozzle extension O Optical force Optical lift Orbit insertion Orbital airship P Parking orbit Photon rocket Plasma propulsion engine Plug nozzle Pogo oscillation PPS-1350 Pulsed inductive thruster Pulsed plasma thruster R Railgun Ram accelerator Reaction control system SABRE (rocket engine) Reaction wheel Reactionless drive

R cont. Redshift rocket Relativistic rocket Resistojet rocket Reusable launch system RL10 RL60 Rocket candy Rocket engine Rocket propellant Rocket sled launch Rockoon S Saturn (rocket family) Scramjet Scramjet programs Single-stage-to-orbit Skyhook (structure) Solar sail Solar thermal rocket Solid-fuel rocket Space elevator Space fountain Space gun Space tether Spacecraft propulsion Specific impulse Staged combustion cycle (rocket) System-specific impulse T The Hy-V Scramjet Flight Experiment Three-stage-to-orbit Trans Lunar Injection Trans-Earth injection Trinitramide Tripropellant rocket Two-stage-to-orbit V Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket Vinci (rocket engine) Vulcain W Woodward effect Y Yo-yo de-spin

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