- Look up
thruster or
thrusters in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Thruster may
refer to: A
thruster is a
propulsive device used by
spacecraft and watercraft...
- An ion
thruster, ion drive, or ion
engine is a form of
electric propulsion used for
spacecraft propulsion. An ion
thruster creates a
cloud of positive...
- A
thruster is a
spacecraft propulsion device used for
orbital station-keeping,
attitude control, or long-duration, low-thrust acceleration,
often as part...
- Hall-effect
thruster (HET) is a type of ion
thruster in
which the
propellant is
accelerated by an
electric field. Hall-effect
thrusters (based on the...
-
Manoeuvering thrusters (bow
thrusters and
stern thrusters) are
transversal propulsion devices built into or
mounted to
either the bow or
stern (front or...
- literature, the term "plasma
thruster"
sometimes encomp****es
thrusters usually designated as "ion engines".
Plasma thrusters do not
typically use high voltage...
- An
azimuth thruster is a
configuration of
marine propellers placed in pods that can be
rotated to any
horizontal angle (azimuth),
making a
rudder redundant...
- The NASA
Evolutionary Xenon Thruster (NEXT)
project at
Glenn Research Center is a
gridded electrostatic ion
thruster about three times as
powerful as the...
- A
vernier thruster is a
rocket engine used on a
spacecraft or
launch vehicle for fine
adjustments to the
attitude or velocity.
Depending on the design...
- defined. One of the
simplest examples of a
stellar engine is the
Shkadov thruster (named
after Dr. Leonid Shkadov, who
first proposed it), or a class-A stellar...
