A doctoral candidate at the University of Sydney designed an ion thruster — a system that propels spacecraft by expelling ions to create thrust — that destroys the fuel efficiency world record ...

Ion thrusters are the most common primary engine powering satellites through orbital maneuvers today. But to travel from low-Earth orbit (LEO) to farther orbits—or even the Moon—requires a ...

The MapperBot is made up of a cubesat that houses a camera, 12 mini processors, and a micro ion thruster system ... It took the Olin team two years to design and a month and a half to build.

On the face of things, not much, but after seeing [Zachary Tong]’s latest video on liquid metal ion thrusters ... gave up and switched to a slot thruster design. This was easier to machine ...

On the face of things, not much, but after seeing [Zachary Tong]’s latest video on liquid metal ion thrusters ... gave up and switched to a slot thruster design. This was easier to machine ...

The ENPULSION MICRO R 3 produces up to 1.5 mN of thrust with an input power of 100 W and provides 50 kNs of total impulse. It is inherently redundant with more than a 100 parallel ion emission ...

Professor Wonho Choe of the Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering developed an artificial intelligence technique that ...

While ion thrusters ... electric thruster that could keep satellites aloft for longer and reduce drag at the same time, by making them literally run on thin air. The design is based on what's ...

The Hall thrusters that the X-37B will carry on its next mission are ion engines similar to the one on the Dawn deep space probe, which uses electrons in a magnetic field to ionize atoms of a ...

Ion thrusters are another low-powered solution, applying weak but constant acceleration The original design, called the emDrive(Opens in a new window) by creator Roger Shawyer, should get ...

The X3 is a type of Hall thruster, a design that uses a stream of ions to ... In fact, project team leaders project that ion propulsion technology such as this could take humans to the Red Planet ...

Micro Aerospace Solutions specializes in micro satellites, thruster design, propulsion systems, attitude control, command and data handling, and computer communications systems for spacecraft and ...