ion engine

It's an ion engine system, very complex, and at least three hundred years old.

The use of a nuclear reactor to run ion engines.

I come fully to life, and bring my ion engine up to thrust.

The focus of this mission phase was on the ion engine systems.

Ion engines need to be able to run efficiently and continuously for years.

We even had the ion engines mounted all over the grid to keep it stable.

Another promising technology, tested on Deep Space 1, is the ion engine.

With a touch on his console, he expected their problems would be over and then he could get a look at those ion engines.

The ion engines in Jimo would have to be at least 10 times more powerful.

At times, the ion engine will be turned off and the spacecraft will coast, engineers said.

"As I understand it, their ion engines work on principles very similar to those employed by other races in our experience.

Xenon was first used for satellite ion engines during the 1970s.

Force is applied by ion engines fed with material mined from the asteroid itself.

The robot chasing me is, I am sure, little different than myself, a tiny brain, an ion engine, and a large set of tanks.

The orbiter will use a single xenon ion engine.

Should not unbalanced forces as given by ion engines be independent of exhaust velocities?

Mercury was a propellant for early ion engines in electric space propulsion systems.

Ion engines can make much more efficient use of propellant than existing chemical rockets.

Interplanetary flight would have lasted until April 2021 (the ion engines were supposed to work two third of the time).

Another dead end came in attempts to use buckyballs as a fuel for ion engines.

It also had an experimental ion engine.

She saw them fold their sails and activate their ion engines.

You don't run an ion engine toward an inhabited rock if you care about your customers.

However, there is a project of an interstellar probe with an ion engine, the energy obtained through a laser base station.

"I can hear ion engines inside firing off.