Thruster

A thruster is a small propulsive device used by spacecraft and watercraft for station keeping, attitude control, or long duration low thrust acceleration.

Related Topics:
Propulsive device - Spacecraft - Watercraft - Station keeping - Attitude control

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• spacecraft propulsion
• monopropellant rockets
• hall effect thruster
• ion thruster
• magnetoplasmadynamic thruster
• pulsed inductive thruster
• pulsed plasma thruster