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Ion thrusters


NASA's Deep Space 1 with NSTAR ion thruster	NASA's Deep Space 1 with NSTAR ion thruster	NASA's Deep Space 1 with NSTAR ion thruster

Dawn mission patch	NASA's Dawn with NSTAR ion thruster	NASA's Dawn with NSTAR ion thruster

NASA's Dawn spacecraft being readied for launch	NSTAR ion thrusters on NASA's Dawn spacecraft being readied for launch	Launch of NASA's Dawn spacecraft

Launch of NASA's Dawn spacecraft	Launch of NASA's Dawn spacecraft	Environmental testing of the NASA/GRC NEXT ion thruster

Environmental testing of the NASA/GRC NEXT ion thruster	Environmental testing of the NASA/GRC NEXT ion thruster	Environmental testing of the NASA/GRC NEXT ion thruster

NASA/GRC NEXT ion thruster being tested with gimbal	JPL's NEXIS ion thruster	Dan Goebel and Tom Randolph with an early version of JPL's NEXIS ion thruster

JPL's NEXIS ion thruster	JPL's NEXIS ion thruster	QinetiQ's T6 ion thrusters

L3 Communications XIPS ion thruster

Hall thrusters


JPL's 6 kW Hall thruster	Richard Hofer preparing to test JPL's 6 kW Hall thruster	JPL's 6 kW Hall thruster

Near-field plume diagnostics with JPL's 6 kW Hall thruster	JPL's 6 kW Hall thruster	JPL's 6 kW Hall thruster

Near-field plume diagnostics with JPL's 6 kW Hall thruster	Near-field plume diagnostics of Busek's BHT-8000 Hall thruster	Near-field plume diagnostics of Busek's BHT-8000 Hall thruster

Busek BHT-8000 Hall thruster	Busek BHT-8000 Hall thruster	Busek BHT-8000 Hall thruster

Busek BHT-8000 Hall thruster	Near-field plume diagnostics of Busek's BHT-8000 Hall thruster	Aerojet BPT-4000 Hall thruster

Aerojet BPT-4000 Hall thruster	Aerojet BPT-4000 Hall thruster	Aerojet BPT-4000 Hall thruster

Aerojet BPT-4000 Hall thruster	Aerojet BPT-4000 Hall thruster

Cathodes


Cathode probe diagnostics in the NSTAR simulator	Cathode test facility	Cathode with axially injected Langmuir probe showing

Cathode test facility	LaB6 hollow cathode	Cathode probe diagnostics in the NSTAR simulator

Micropropulsion


Busek/JPL colloid thrusters on the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft	Busek/JPL colloid thrusters for the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft	JPL's MiXi ion thruster

JPL's MiXi ion thruster	Alameda Applied Sciences/JPL Vacuum Arc Thruster (VAT)

Miscellaneous


JPL's Argon MPD	Dan Goebel and Ira Katz with their book, "Fundamentals of Electric Propulsion: Ion and Hall thrusters"

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