A key breakthrough is a magnetic focusing Hall thruster ... With enhanced performance, the thruster was used on a satellite, and recently won the National Science and Technology Progress Award.
A communications satellite built by Boeing exploded into ... It went into service three months later after an issue with its primary thruster and a second propulsion issue during testing took ...
The IS-33e satellite had suffered problems previously, according to the website Space News, with issues concerning its primary thruster delaying it entering service in January 2017. Further ...