Hall-effect thruster
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In spacecraft propulsion, a Hall-effect thruster is a type of ion thruster in which the propellant is accelerated by an electric field. Based on the discovery by Edwin Hall, Hall-effect thrusters use
6 kW Hall thruster in operation at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Soviet and Russian SPT thrusters
Hall-effect thruster module with propellant tank and control unit visible.
An Exotrail ExoMG – nano (60 W) Hall Effect Thruster firing in a vacuum chamber
Starlink
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Starlink Services, LLC is a telecommunications subsidiary of the American spaceflight company SpaceX, providing broadband Internet service in approximately 160 countries and territories. It also aims
Hall-effect thruster
…thruster for the AEHF satellite series. Several countries worldwide continue efforts to qualify Hall thruster technology for commercial uses. The SpaceX Starlink constellation, the largest satellite constellation in the world, uses Hall-effect thrusters. Starlink initially used krypton gas, but with its V2…
Starlink user equipment manufacturing facility in Bastrop, Texas
Musk and Larry Williams meet with Michael D. Griffin, long-time proponent of low Earth orbit constellations for military purposes (2005).
Falcon 9 lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), Florida, delivering 60 Starlink satellites to orbit on November 11, 2019.
The first batch of 60 Starlink satellites stacked together before deployment on May 24, 2019