Spacecraft Thrusters
- Rocket engine, using exothermic chemical reactions of the propellant(s)
- Electrohydrodynamic thruster, using ionized air (only for use in an atmosphere)
- Electrostatic ion thruster, using high-voltage electrodes
- Ion thruster, using beams of ions accelerated electrically
- Hall effect thruster, a type of ion thruster
- Pulsed inductive thruster, a pulsed form of ion thruster
- Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster, electric propulsion using the Lorentz force
- Electrodeless plasma thruster, electric propulsion using ponderomotive force
- Pulsed plasma thruster, using current arced across a solid propellant
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