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

thumb|Rear thrusters of the [[Space Shuttle Atlantis]]

  • 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 (exercise), a combination of a front squat and a push press (crossfit)

See also

  • Thrust (disambiguation)