Individual micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) thrusters fueled with lead styphnate propellant fired more than 20 times at one-second intervals... This content requires a subscription to one of ...

These thrusters need not only be small ... taking a page from microelectronics by using the Micro-Electrical Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technique normally employed for machining silicon wafers ...

The FEMTA technology is a micro-electromechanical system, or a MEMS, which are tiny machines that contain components measured on the scale of microns, or millionths of a meter. The thruster ...

First units have already been shipped to customers. Thrusters from the new ENPULSION MICRO family are based on the FEEP technology of the NANO family, which has a notable flight heritage with more ...

Thanks to research on nano-sized thrusters that act like ... a wafer-thin piece of silicon via micro-electromechanical systems technologies, known as MEMS, that are more commonly used in the ...