Articles tagged: evolutionary xenon thruster

• October 2016 Unlocking the potential of annular ion engines

  ... range in Isp. The AIE concept represents a natural progression of gridded ion thruster technology beyond the capabilities embodied by NASA’s Evolutionary Xenon Thruster (NEXT) [1]. The AIE would be appropriate for: (a) applications which require...

  • annular ion engine
  • electric propulsion
  • evolutionary xenon thruster
  • innovation
  • NASA
  Authors: Michael J. Patterson    
• September 2019 A new era in planetary defence missions

  ... final hour of the mission. The DART spacecraft will also demonstrate other new technologies, including NASA’s Evolutionary Xenon Thruster-Commercial (NEXT-C) ion engine, developed by NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The NEXT-C engine...

  • DART
  • Didymos
  • Hera
  • NASA
  • planetary defence
  Authors: Nancy L Chabot     Sean Blair