An SPT-140 Hall Effect thruster under testing. Four of these thrusters will be installed on NASA’s Psyche spacecraft. Credit: NASA, public domain Gridded ion thrusters have seen plenty of use ...

A Hall-effect thruster is a type of ion thruster that accelerates propellant using an electric field. The technology is already widely used in satellites in low Earth orbit. NASA’s H71M sub ...

Hollow cathodes are used as part of both Hall effect and gridded ion thrusters, which are some of the most common forms of electric propulsion in use today. The operation of hollow cathodes, despite ...

The AI-based cube satellite (cubesat) Hall-effect thruster will be installed on the cubesat K-Hero during the fourth launch of Nuri, a domestic space launch vehicle, in November this year. Hall-effect ...

Dr. King is an experimentalist interested in studying electric space propulsion systems, including Hall-effect thrusters, ion engines, and arcjets. By utilizing strong electromagnetic forces to ...

More recently, the company started developing two other products in parallel: a Hall-effect electric thruster for spacecraft and a second-stage hybrid rocket engine. “Pulsar has built a ...