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Slit caesium thruster unit


Date: 27 September 2008
Satellite: LISA Pathfinder
Depicts: Slit caesium thruster unit
Location: ESTEC
Copyright: ESA/Astrium

This photograph shows a slit caesium thruster unit attached to the LISA Pathfinder science module during system level tests at ESTEC, The Netherlands, in September 2008.

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

Last Update: 1 September 2019
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