Rocket engines thermal electric engine

The first experiments with the thermal electric engine were conducted in Russia in 1929 by its inventor, Valentin P. Glushko, who later became a world-famous authority in rocket propulsion. For more than forty years, the United States and Russia have devoted many resources to research and development of various kinds of EREs. First tested in space by the Russians in 1964, these engines have found some limited applications in modern space technology. For more than two decades Russian weather and communication satellites have regularly used electric rocket engines for orbital stabilization. The first spacecraft to employ ERE for main propulsion was the American asteroid exploration probe Deep Space 1, launched in 1998. The performance of... 

Aminoplasts of the MFE type are characterized by high mechanical strength and dimensional stability and find application in electrical equipment units (blocks, plates, etc.), in components endowed with electrical strength, thermal and arc resistance. They have proved to be an excellent material for making electric devices in rocket engineering and can be incorporated into equipment operating under tropical conditions. 

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