Category:Spacecraft propulsion

There are many different methods of spacecraft propulsion used to change the velocity of spacecraft and artificial satellites. Each method has drawbacks and advantages, and spacecraft propulsion is an active area of research.

This category includes technologies and concepts related to spacecraft propulsion systems, but not specific examples of such systems (such as the Space Shuttle Main Engine).

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• Nuclear spacecraft propulsion

Articles in category "Spacecraft propulsion"

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Spacecraft propulsion A Aerobrake Aerobraking Aerospike engine Air-augmented rocket Alcubierre drive Antimatter rocket Arcjet rocket Attitude control B Beam-powered propulsion Bias drive Big dumb booster Bipropellant rocket Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program D De Laval nozzle Delta-v Delta-v budget Diametric drive Differential sail Disjunction drive Dual mode propulsion rocket E Electrostatic ion thruster Expander cycle (rocket) Expanding nozzle Expendable launch system F Field Emission Electric Propulsion

G Gas-generator cycle (rocket) Gravitational slingshot H Hall effect thruster Hohmann transfer orbit Hybrid rocket Hypersonic I Interplanetary Superhighway Interplanetary travel Ion thruster L Laser broom Launch window Lightcraft Liquid air cycle engine Lithobraking Lunar space elevator M Magnetic sail Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster Mass driver Mini-magnetospheric plasma propulsion Momentum wheel Monopropellant rocket Multistage rocket O Orbital airship P Pitch drive Plug nozzle Pogo oscillation Pressure-fed cycle (rocket)

P cont. Pulsed inductive thruster Pulsed plasma thruster R RL-10 (rocket engine) Railgun Ram accelerator Redshift rocket Relativistic rocket Resistojet rocket Reusable launch system Rocket fuel S SABRE Saturn (rocket family) Scramjet Single stage to orbit Skyhook (structure) Solar sail Solar thermal rocket Solid rocket Space elevator Space fountain Space transport Specific impulse Staged combustion cycle (rocket) T Tether propulsion Tripropellant rocket Two stage to orbit V Variable specific impulse magnetoplasma rocket