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Thruster
A thruster is a small propulsive device used by spacecraft for station keeping[?], attitude control, or long duration low thrust acceleration.
See also:
- monopropellant rockets
- hall effect thruster
- ion thruster
- magnetoplasmadynamic thruster
- pulsed inductive thruster
- pulsed plasma thruster
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