Talk:Electrodeless plasma thruster

This article is appears to be primarily written as a marketing tool for The Elwing Company and needs to be updated with neutral additions (along with valid citations). For example, Mr. Gregory Emsellem did NOT create or invent this thruster as several engineers [ie Hawley, Asmussen, Morin, Chapman, Whitehair, and Haraburda] were involved in developing this type of thruster back in the 1980s and 1990sP024005 (talk) 19:10, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

the technology described in this article describe a specific technology and engine (just like XIPS is a specific technology representative of the gridded ion engine/ electrostatic class), as such it is not marketing material but a description of a specific technical object. This technology is very different from the one you suggest to add, for instance the plasma is fully ionized as opposed to weakly ionized in the reference you suggest, more importantly the thrust generation mechanism are radically different, in the material you discuss (known as microwave electrothermal thrusters) the plasma simply serve a way to increase the temperature (average non directed kinetic energy of all particles) of the gas flow, in the technology described in this article the acceleration is electromagnetic. I would suggest that you could create a new article that would describe all the spacecraft technologies which happen to be electrodeless and that this article would be filed this "class" article, alongside with the electrodeless thermal device you suggested to add.

Agree This is more appropriately an ion thruster and will be added to the electrothermal section of that page. In the future, I recommend you sign your post on talk pages. P024005 (talk) 12:05, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Agree This article should be removed or rewritten to a large extent. For instance the operation principle section is particularly unclear; in step 2 ionization is obtained by several methods (a list of all known methods in fact), then step 3 starts with unclear difference between ionization stage (step 2?) and ionization process (step 3 ?). For me the article sounds more like a declaration of intent or a list of expectations then like a description of some working device.--Henri BONDAR (talk) 11:52, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

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