electrostatic propulsion
1Electrostatic ion thruster — The electrostatic ion thruster is a kind of design for ion thrusters (a kind of highly efficient low thrust spacecraft propulsion running on electrical power). These designs use high voltage electrodes in order to accelerate ions with… …
2Field Emission Electric Propulsion — (FEEP) is an advanced electrostatic propulsion concept, a form of ion thruster, that uses liquid metal (usually either caesium or indium) as a propellant. A FEEP device consists of an emitter and an accelerator electrode. A potential difference… …
3Spacecraft propulsion — A remote camera captures a close up view of a Space Shuttle Main Engine during a test firing at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Mississippi Spacecraft propulsion is any method used to accelerate spacecraft and artificial… …
4Electric propulsion — is a form of spacecraft propulsion used in outer space. This type of rocket like reaction engine utilize electric energy to obtain thrust from propellant carried with the vehicle. Unlike rocket engines these kinds of engines do not necessarily… …
5Nuclear pulse propulsion — An artist s conception of the Project Orion basic spacecraft, powered by nuclear pulse propulsion. Nuclear pulse propulsion (or External Pulsed Plasma Propulsion, as it is termed in one recent NASA document[1]) is a proposed method of spacecraft… …
6Inertial electrostatic confinement — (often abbreviated as IEC) is a concept for retaining a plasma using an electrostatic field. The field accelerates charged particles (either ions or electrons) radially inward, usually in a spherical but sometimes in a cylindrical geometry. Ions… …
7United States gravity control propulsion research (1955 - 1974) — American interest in gravity control propulsion research intensified during the early 1950s. Literature from that period used the terms anti gravity, anti gravitation, baricentric, counterbary, electrogravitics, G projects, gravitics, gravity… …
8Nuclear propulsion — includes a wide variety of propulsion methods that fulfil the promise of the Atomic Age by using some form of nuclear reaction as their primary power source. Contents 1 Surface ships and submarines 2 Cars 3 Aircraft …
9Plasmadynamics and Electric Propulsion Laboratory — (PEPL) is a University of Michigan laboratory facility for electric propulsion and plasma application research. The primary goals of PEPL is to increase efficiency of electric propulsion systems, understand integration issues of plasma thrusters… …
10ion propulsion — noun : propulsion of a body by the forces resulting from the rearward discharge of a stream of ionized particles * * * Rocketry. a projected type of propulsion for vehicles in outer space, the exhaust consisting of positive ions and negative… …
