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Cold gas thrusters can get to a specific impulse of about 70 seconds.
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An engineering student with four children and who built a basic ion thruster for satellites for fun, Healy used the work to cover his bills while taking classes.
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Traditional propeller thrusters tend to emit acoustic noise in marine environment.
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Transportation Department spokeswoman Aurah Landau says the Columbia needed significant repairs that required the manufacturing of new bow thruster exhaust system components.
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One company, in Charlestown, makes tiny rocket thrusters.
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Based in the old Schrafft’s candy factory in Charlestown, Accion makes very small ion thrusters that help steer and control small satellites.
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The gas shoots up in little geysers or jets, that act like the thrusters on a spacecraft, giving the comet a little kick this way and that.
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Then in October, New Horizons will fire its thrusters and perform the first of seven maneuvers to change is trajectory.
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