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New Improved Hall Thruster NASA Glenn announced today it has demonstrated high-power electric propulsion with a type of thruster known as a Hall Effect thruster. They say the test unit, known as NASA-457M is
“A giant leap toward enabling high power electric propulsion was recently demonstrated. With power levels up to 72 kW and nearly 3 Newtons of thrust, NASA’s Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, has designed, built and successfully tested a 50 kW-class Hall thruster.”
The technology will have important commercial satellite applications. The possibility of more than doubling commercial payload masses to Geostationary Orbit (GSO) is certain to impact the bottom line of the entire GSO service industry.
Work of this sort is the modern equivalent of what NACA did for the aviation industry in the early days of american aviation.
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