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Pulsed Plasma Thruster
The Pulsed Plasma Thruster (PPT) is a self-contained electric thruster
system complete with inert solid propellant that provides very small thrust
pulses for precise orbital positioning and pointing. The PPT requires
only 1-100 watts of power, making it ideally suited to small spacecraft
applications and attitude control.
