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Ground station crews that today coordinate elegant sequences of thruster burns will face more chaotic obstacle courses and bigger debris fields blooming across their display monitors.
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IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2025
The same Luch/Olymp satellite then fired its thrusters to begin drifting to another slot thousands of miles away to sidle up next to another Intelsat bird named Intelsat 39.
—Benj Edwards, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
Ionized gas is called a plasma, and it is electrically charged such that it can be directed and accelerated by electromagnetic fields out through a thruster nozzle, producing thrust.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2025
If engines fail, gas thrusters activate to reduce speed and stabilize the plane.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
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IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2025
The same Luch/Olymp satellite then fired its thrusters to begin drifting to another slot thousands of miles away to sidle up next to another Intelsat bird named Intelsat 39.
—Benj Edwards, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
Ionized gas is called a plasma, and it is electrically charged such that it can be directed and accelerated by electromagnetic fields out through a thruster nozzle, producing thrust.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2025
If engines fail, gas thrusters activate to reduce speed and stabilize the plane.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
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“Thruster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thruster. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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thruster
noun
thrust·er
ˈthrəs-tər 
: one that thrusts
especially
: an engine that produces thrust by discharging a jet of fluid or a stream of particles
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