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
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 (crossfit), a combination of a front squat and a push press
See also
Thrust (disambiguation)