To miniaturize the electric propulsion design, Accion and Busek did away ... over Accion and recently sold its first micro electric ion engines to NASA for use on small satellites.

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 ...

ENPULSION, the market leader in small satellite propulsion ... The ENPULSION MICRO R³ is inherently redundant with more than a 100 parallel ion emission sites and 4 cold redundant neutralizers.

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.

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 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 ...

When [Jay Bowles] demoed his first-generation ion thruster ... his Mark II thruster. It operates under the same core principles as the earlier build, but swaps out the open-frame design and ...

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 ...

The CAT design is based on a specific kind of ion thruster, the Helicon Double Layer Thruster. To date, its' been verified and tested by the ESA, but not deployed in any spacecraft. The group ...

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

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 ...