Benjamin Jorns, U-M associate professor of aerospace engineering led a new Hall thruster study that operated a Hall Plasma thruster at five times old power limits. His team challenged ran a 9 kilowatt ...
Ion thrusters are an amazing spacecraft propulsion technology, providing very high efficiency with relatively little fuel. Yet getting one to produce more thrust than that required to lift a sheet of ...
Alta of Italy has begun installing Europe's largest electric propulsion (EP) satellite thruster test chamber at Ospedaletto, near Pisa. The Impianto Prova Propulsori (IPP) will go into operation later ...