ST-7 DRS consists of clusters of colloid micronewton thrusters and control software residing on a dedicated computer. ... This new thruster technology has never successfully been used in space before.

One heavily researched area is electric propulsion (EP) that includes field emission electric propulsion (FEEP), colloid thrusters and other versions of field emission thrusters (FETs). EP systems ...

(KUTV) - A thruster 'experiment' built by undergraduate students at Utah State University in Logan has come back to Earth from space.NASA launched a 43-foot-tall rocket into space Sunday which was ...

The technology testing mission LISA Pathfinder came to an end after 16 months of scientific operations on 18 July 2017 but it has paved the way for the LISA gravitational-wave observatory. LISA ...

Researchers at the 502 research institute, which operates under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. in Beijing, have delivered a new-generation Hall-effect thruster unit to Chinese ...