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• Thruster — A thruster is a small propulsive device used by spacecraft and watercraft for station keeping, attitude control, or long duration low thrust acceleration.Thruster (surfing) is a surfboard fin design.Spacecraft thrusters,*Electrohydrodynamic… …   Wikipedia

• thruster — /thrus teuhr/, n. 1. a person or thing that thrusts. 2. Fox Hunting. a rider who keeps in the front of the field. 3. Aerospace. a small rocket attached to a spacecraft and used to control its attitude or translational motion. [1590 1600; THRUST + …   Universalium

• thruster — thrust•er [[t]ˈθrʌs tər[/t]] n. 1) rkt a small rocket attached to a spacecraft and used for producting thrust to control attitude or translational motion 2) a propeller located in a ship s bow or stern to provide added maneuverability, as when… …   From formal English to slang

• thruster — /ˈθrʌstə/ (say thrustuh) noun 1. someone or something that thrusts. 2. Astronautics a small rocket used to control the attitude of a spacecraft; vernier rocket. 3. a surfboard with three fins, these designed so as to give it a high degree of… …  

• Reaction control system — A reaction control system, abbreviated RCS, is a subsystem of a spacecraft. Its purpose is attitude control and steering. An RCS system is capable of providing small amounts of thrust in any desired direction or combination of directions. An RCS… …   Wikipedia

• Ion thruster — An ion thruster is a form of electric propulsion used for spacecraft propulsion that creates thrust by accelerating ions. Ion thrusters are characterized by how they accelerate the ions, using either electrostatic or electromagnetic force.… …   Wikipedia

• Vernier thruster — A vernier thruster is a thruster used on a spacecraft for attitude control. It is a smaller thrust motor than main attitude control motors and is used for fine adjustments to the attitude or velocity of a spacecraft. A vernier rocket is a smaller …   Wikipedia

• Magnetic field oscillating amplified thruster — The Magnetic Field Oscillating Amplified Thruster (MOA) (often named as Plasma Engine by the media) is a versatile electrothermodynamic system, which is able to accelerate nearly every medium to extremely high velocities, thereby generating a… …   Wikipedia

• Colloid thruster — 20 μN colloid thruster system.[1] A colloid thruster is a type of thruster which uses electrostatic acceleration of charged liquid droplets for propulsion. It is closely related to electrospray ionization and other hydrodynamic spraying processes …   Wikipedia

• Bow thruster — A bow thruster, is a propulsion device built into, or mounted to, the bow of a ship or boat to enhance its maneuverability. Bow thrusters make docking easier, since they allow the Captain to turn the vessel to port or starboard without using the… …   Wikipedia

• Pulsed plasma thruster — Pulsed plasma thrusters are a method of spacecraft propulsion which use an arc of electric current adjacent to a solid propellant, to produce a quick and repeatable burst of impulse. PPTs are excellent for attitude control, and for main… …   Wikipedia