mercury ion thruster
1Ion thruster — An ion thruster is a form of electric propulsion used for spacecraft propulsion that creates thrust by accelerating ions. Ion thrusters are characterized by how they accelerate the ions, using either electrostatic or electromagnetic force.… …
2Electrostatic 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… …
3Mercury (element) — gold ← mercury → thallium Cd ↑ Hg ↓ Cn …
4Caesium — xenon ← caesium → barium Rb ↑ Cs ↓ Fr …
5Spacecraft 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… …
6Deep Space 1 — Artist rendering of Deep Space I s flyby of comet 19P/Borrelly Operator NASA / JPL Major contractors Spectrum Astro …
7Dawn (spacecraft) — Dawn Artist s concept of Dawn with Vesta (left) Ceres (right) (the proximity of Vesta to Ceres is not to scale.) Operator NASA Major contractors Orbital Sciences, JPL, UCLA …
8Reaction control system — A reaction control system, abbreviated RCS, is a subsystem of a spacecraft. Its purpose is attitude control and steering. An RCS system is capable of providing small amounts of thrust in any desired direction or combination of directions. An RCS… …
9Xenon — (PronEng|ˈzɛnɒn [Xenon, entry in the Oxford English Dictionary, prepared by J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner, vol. 20, second edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. ISBN 0 19 861232 X (vol. 20), ISBN 0 19 861186 2 (set.)] or IPAlink en|ˈziːnɒn… …
10Timeline of rocket and missile technology — This article gives a concise timeline of rocket and missile technology. * 4th Century BCE Archytpus steam rocket on wires (n.b. single source 4 centuries after event)* 1st Century CE Aeolipile a rocket engine on a bearing* 12th century CE Rockets …
