Mini-thrusters or miniature, electric propulsion systems are being developed, which could make it easier for the Air Force's small satellites, including the latest CubeSats, to perform space ...

Not enough companies are making thrusters to power all the satellites that the Space Force needs. And as Payload Space reported last week, this is "putting pressure on the small sat supply chain." ...

With satellites weighing under 10 kg (22 ... Funded by ESA, the ICE-Cube Thruster certainly meets the small criteria. In fact, it's tiny. The entire thruster chip is about the length of a ...

Later in August, it won a nearly $3 million U.S. Air Force contract to test safer and more affordable satellite thrusters. Benchmark produces propulsion systems that move small satellites once ...

The possibility of the controversial IVO Quantized Inertia drive on the Barry-1 satellite working has raised the question of could it be faked with a small Hall Effect Thruster ? I looked at the ...

Every satellite faces orbital decay, a small drag in orbit that causes the ... To combat this, satellites use thrusters to boost their orbits, moving just a little bit over time in order to ...

While commercial ion thrusters are good enough for most LEO satellites, these engines only use “10% or less of a small spacecraft’s initial mass in propellant,” according to NASA.

The company now aims to produce 200 ion thrusters per year – which manoeuvre small satellites – by 2028. This will be done at its future production facility in the Île-de-France region. The ...

The thrusters get their power from solar cells that are already ... were assumed to be the future of the industry. Israel excelled at these small satellites. “It’s no secret that we can’t launch over ...

"Redwire offers a range of solutions designed to support high-volume small satellite manufacturing, and through this partnership, we are focused on delivering an optimal in-space propulsion ...