An SPT-140 Hall Effect thruster under testing. Four of these thrusters will be installed on NASA’s Psyche spacecraft. Credit: NASA, public domain Gridded ion thrusters have seen plenty of use ...

A Hall-effect thruster is a type of ion thruster that accelerates propellant using an electric field. The technology is ...

Professor Wonho Choe of the Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering developed an artificial intelligence technique that ...

A key breakthrough is a magnetic focusing Hall thruster, which uses a specially designed magnetic field to control electron conduction and ion acceleration. With enhanced performance, the thruster ...

Hollow cathodes are used as part of both Hall effect and gridded ion thrusters, which are some of the most common forms of electric propulsion in use today. The operation of hollow cathodes, despite ...

Dr. King is an experimentalist interested in studying electric space propulsion systems, including Hall-effect thrusters, ion engines, and arcjets. By utilizing strong electromagnetic forces to ...