News Archive / Tagged: Hall Thruster

• NASA Glenn tests solar electric propulsion thruster for journey to metal world

  Michael ColeOctober 9th, 2017

  NASA is preparing to travel to a world unlike any other it has visited before. The agency has sent spacecraft to terrestrial planets, gaseous planets, icy moons, and rocky asteroids. Now, following its approval as a Discovery mission in February of this year, a spacecraft set for launch in 2022 will visit the main-belt asteroid Psyche, a metal world that scientists think is made almost entirely of nickel and iron.

• Aerojet Rocketdyne’s $67M contract with NASA set to develop new SEP system

  Michael ColeApril 30th, 2016

  NASA announced last week their selection of Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc., of Redmond, Washington, to develop a newly advanced electric propulsion system. The new system is the next step in NASA's Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) project, which is developing new technologies to expand the range and capabilities of future science and exploration missions.

• NASA taps Aerojet Rocketdyne to develop Hall electric propulsion system

  Jason RhianFebruary 17th, 2016

  NASA has awarded a $2.5 million contract to California-based Aerojet Rocketdyne to develop the high-power electric "Hall Thruster" propulsion system. It is hoped that these thrusters could be used on crewed deep space missions which NASA is working to carry out in the coming decades.