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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

See also

• Thrust (disambiguation)

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