Ion thrusters, in their various forms ... Issues with such designs include issues of high power draw and problems of dealing with waste heat. If these could be overcome, designs like a scaled ...

and to develop high-efficiency, low-power Hall thrusters. This AI technique can be applied not only to Hall thrusters, but ...

When [Jay Bowles] demoed his first-generation ion ... the high-voltage powerplant to use, but [Jay] was clearly onto something. Fast forward six months, and he’s back with his Mark II thruster.

Electrospray (ES) thrusters generate low ... Recent developments include nonmetallic ion sources such as ionic liquids (ILs), room-temperature molten salts, that support emission of heavy ions that ...