Plasma Thrusters Give High Exhaust Velocity
Electrostatic thruster
Electrodynamic thruster
From University of Stuttgart’s web page:
www.irs.uni-stuttgart.de/RESEARCH/
EL_PROP/e_el_prop.html
Electrothermal thruster
From Robert Jahn,
Physics of Electric Propulsion (1968)
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