Thruster

Thruster may refer to:

Propulsion devices
A thruster is a propulsive device used by spacecraft and watercraft for station keeping, attitude control, in the reaction control system, or long-duration, low-thrust acceleration.


 * Reaction engine

Spacecraft thrusters

 * Rocket engine, using exothermic chemical reactions of the propellant(s)
 * Electrohydrodynamic thruster, using ionized air (only for use in an atmosphere)
 * Electrostatic ion thruster, using high-voltage electrodes
 * Ion thruster, using beams of ions accelerated electrically
 * Hall-effect thruster, a type of ion thruster
 * Pulsed inductive thruster, a pulsed form of ion thruster
 * Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster, electric propulsion using the Lorentz force
 * Electrodeless plasma thruster, electric propulsion using ponderomotive force
 * Pulsed plasma thruster, using current arced across a solid propellant
 * Plasma thruster

Marine thrusters

 * Azimuth thruster, pod underneath a ship, instead of a propeller and rudder
 * Bow thruster, or stern thruster, at the bow or the stern of a ship or boat
 * Rim-driven thruster, electric motor and propeller combined in single unit
 * Underwater Thrusters, electric motor or hydraulic motor and propeller combined in single unit to propel the ROV, AUV or UUV

Transportation

 * Thruster (surfing) is a surfboard fin design
 * Shkadov thruster, hypothetical megascale reaction for moving a star

Vehicles

 * Avio Delta Thruster, a Bulgarian ultralight trike design
 * Thruster T600 Sprint, a British ultralight aircraft

Others

 * Hurrying, also called 'coal thrusting', a 19th-century profession
 * Big Mother Thruster, hard rock band
 * Thruster (crossfit), a combination of a front squat and a push press