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Hall Thruster Research: Propelling Deep Space Missions

Engineers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center are advancing the propulsion system that will propel the first ever mission to redirect an asteroid for astronauts to explore in the 2020s. NASA’s Asteroid ...
DBusiness

Startup Spotlight: Orbion Space Technology

Orbion Space Technology in Houghton, in the Upper Peninsula, was founded in 2016 by Brad King and Jason Sommerville to develop and manufacture a more efficient thruster system for spacecraft. […] ...
Nature

Hall Thruster Plasma Dynamics

Hall thrusters utilise electric propulsion through the ionisation and acceleration of plasma under crossed electric and magnetic fields, offering efficient and reliable performance for spacecraft.
Yahoo

Psyche spacecraft's sci-fi thrusters suffer glitch on way to metal-rich asteroid

On Tuesday (April 29), NASA announced that its Psyche probe has suffered a setback concerning its propulsion system while nearly 150 million miles (238 million kilometers) from our planet. The boxy, ...
The Verge

NASA’s Psyche mission fires up its futuristic electric engines

Psyche is gently gliding to its target asteroid by expelling ionized xenon. Psyche is gently gliding to its target asteroid by expelling ionized xenon. is a former weekend editor who covered tech and ...
SpaceNews

Orbion delivers 33 electric thrusters to York Space for U.S. military constellation

WASHINGTON — Orbion, an independent small-satellite propulsion company based in Michigan, has delivered 33 electric ...

Orbion delivers 33 Aurora propulsion modules to York Space Systems for military constellation

Our customers rely on us to provide propulsion systems that perform as expected on orbit… For Orbion, delivering ...
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Phase Four Partners with Redwire to Expand Space Propulsion Offerings and Deliver Hall Effect Thrusters

HAWTHORNE, Calif., July 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Phase Four, a leading provider of next generation electric propulsion solutions for satellites, proudly announces the signing of a strategic cooperation ...
KTLA

K2 Space achieves dual-milestones with completion of first in-space demonstration and successful test firing of 20kW Hall-effect thruster

TORRANCE, Calif., July 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- K2 Space Corporation, a leading innovator of high-power, low-cost satellites, today announced the completion of two major milestones on the path to its ...
Aviation Week

Test of advanced thruster system for TSAT successful

Lockheed Martin and Aerojet report success in a demonstration of the High Power Hall Current Thruster electric propulsion system to be used for orbital transfer and station keeping for the ...
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Figure 4. Graphs of the predicted thrust and discharge current of KAIST’s 700 W Hall thruster using the AI model (HallNN). The left image shows the Hall thruster operating in KAIST Electric Propulsion ...