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    A needle indium thruster unit

    Date: 27 Sep 2008
    Satellite: LISA Pathfinder
    Depicts: Needle thruster unit on the LISA Pathfinder science module
    Location: ESTEC
    Copyright: ESA/Astrium

    The photograph shows a needle indium thruster unit (the white 'box' on the right-hand side) attached to the LISA Pathfinder science module during system level tests at ESTEC, the Netherlands.

    This is one of two European micro-propulsion technologies being tested for LISA Pathfinder.

     


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