When [Jay Bowles] demoed his first-generation ion thruster on Plasma Channel, the resulting video picked up millions of views and got hobbyists and professionals alike talking. While ionic lifters ...

The plasma generated isn’t very different from the one used in fusion nuclear reactors, which operate at temperatures as high ...

In other words, aneutronic nuclear fusion in a water-fueled pulsed-plasma thruster holds great performance improvements through high-speed protons from ionized water vapor. These high-velocity ...

But once a craft hits orbit, he says, his new invention makes more sense: The Mini-Helicon Plasma Thruster is designed to be a lighter, cheaper way to move through space. BRILLIANT IDEA ...

TASS/. Development tests of the SPD-230 high-power stationary plasma thruster have been completed, Director of the Fakel design bureau Gennady Abramenkov told TASS. "We have completed development ...

Dr Kim, who created a plasma thruster design for the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched last year, said that currently spacecraft, once they have left the Earth's atmosphere, are mostly propelled by ...

In the electric propulsion community, two computational methods have been previously developed to predict thruster performance and model plasma behavior. Fluid methods assume a distribution function ...