{"id":524866,"date":"2026-06-29T23:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/524866\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T23:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:00:10","slug":"thruster-test-in-jpls-electric-propulsion-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/524866\/","title":{"rendered":"Thruster Test in JPL&#8217;s Electric Propulsion Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"s3y9g\">A blue ring glows from a xenon-propelled Hall thruster during a hot-fire test inside a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/go\/epl\/capabilities\/facilities\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vacuum chamber<\/a> at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in May 2026. The thruster is being developed by Vast Space, which has licensed JPL\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s44205-025-00129-x\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">H10 Hall thruster<\/a> design, for use on a future satellite constellation. JPL is collaborating with Vast to support the company\u2019s thruster system development, testing, and qualification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A blue ring glows from a xenon-propelled Hall thruster during a hot-fire test inside a vacuum chamber at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[61,60,82],"class_list":["post-524866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}