A needle indium thruster unit
Date: 27 September 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.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
