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Colloid ion thruster Field-emission electric propulsion Nano-particle field extraction thruster The electrothermal category groups devices that use electromagnetic...

Microwave electrothermal thruster, also known as MET, is a propulsion device that converts microwave energy (a type of electromagnetic radiation) into...

thruster, ion drive, or ion engine is a form of electric propulsion used for spacecraft propulsion. An ion thruster creates a cloud of positive ions from...

and Soreq Nuclear Research Center. It is possible that electrothermal-chemical gun propulsion will be an integral part of US Army's future combat system...

thrusters Field-emission electric propulsion MagBeam thrusters Hall-effect thrusters Colloid thrusters Electrothermal thrusters, wherein electromagnetic...

subject to the electrothermal instability occurring at a critical Hall parameter, which makes full-scale developments difficult. MHD propulsion has been considered...

Nuclear pulse propulsion or external pulsed plasma propulsion is a hypothetical method of spacecraft propulsion that uses nuclear explosions for thrust...

High Power Electric Propulsion Pulsed plasma thruster Hall-effect thruster Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster Microwave electrothermal thruster Field-emission...

Antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion (also antiproton-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion) is a variation of nuclear pulse propulsion based upon the injection...

Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) is an electrothermal thruster under development for possible use in spacecraft propulsion. It uses radio waves to ionize and...

Thermal rockets use an inert propellant, heated by electricity (electrothermal propulsion) or a nuclear reactor (nuclear thermal rocket). Chemical rockets...

that store energy internally. NTRs have been proposed as a spacecraft propulsion technology, with the earliest ground tests occurring in 1955. The United...

In spacecraft propulsion, a Hall-effect thruster (HET) is a type of ion thruster in which the propellant is accelerated by an electric field. Hall-effect...

A fusion rocket is a theoretical design for a rocket driven by fusion propulsion that could provide efficient and sustained acceleration in space without...

A plasma propulsion engine is a type of electric propulsion that generates thrust from a quasi-neutral plasma. This is in contrast with ion thruster engines...

propulsive core of the Xplorer vehicle. Comet is a launch-safe electrothermal propulsion system designed for orbit raising, life extension, and de-orbit...

infeasible reactionless drives are a staple of science fiction for space propulsion. Through the years there have been numerous claims for functional reactionless...

Beam-powered propulsion, also known as directed energy propulsion, is a class of aircraft or spacecraft propulsion that uses energy beamed to the spacecraft...

Field propulsion is the concept of spacecraft propulsion where no propellant is necessary but instead momentum of the spacecraft is changed by an interaction...

the AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE 24th Joint Propulsion Conference that proposed a Bondi negative gravitational mass propulsion system. Bondi pointed out that a negative...