ISRO has successfully conducted a 1,000-hour life test on its 300mN Stationary Plasma Thruster, marking a significant ...

Currently, chemical propulsion is utilised to raise satellite orbits. This innovation will lead to significant mass savings ...

A research team led by the University of Bologna is closing on building a space propulsion system that will use water as fuel ...

while electric propulsion (EP) is very efficient but generates low thrust. Magdrive has developed an EP system that uses solid metal propellant to generate high-energy plasma, with the same high ...

Noting that these thrusters use Xenon as the propellant, the ISRO said the Specific Impulse of the Electric Propulsion System ...

When [Jay Bowles] demoed his first-generation ion thruster on Plasma Channel, the resulting video picked up millions of views and got hobbyists and professionals alike talking. While ionic lifters ...

The Electric Propulsion System is proposed to replace the chemical propulsion system in future satellites of the space agency and pave the way for communication satellites which use only electric ...

Noting that these thrusters use Xenon as the propellant, the ISRO said the Specific Impulse of the Electric Propulsion System, which is a major performance indicator of a space propulsion system, is ...

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ISRO has announced the successful completion of a 1,000-hour life test on its 300mN (millinewton) Stationary Plasma Thruster that is developed for induction in the Electric Propulsion System of ...