This breakdown and build of a simple plasma thruster should help you on your way. All you really need is some Argon, a large capacitor bank, and a custom nozzle. You’ve already got most of that ...

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 ...

When a scientist in China invented a new jet engine that could change the future of jet propulsion, it went largely unnoticed ...

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

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 ...

Create a prototype of an efficient aircraft capable of flying with ion propulsion. This is the aim of the IPROP project, led ...

(a) Photograph of the helicon plasma thruster at Tohoku University. (b) The measured plasma pressure profile and the particle dynamics relating to the loss of axial momentum loss. Disclaimer ...

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 ...

MOSCOW, December 9. /TASS/. Russia has launched the trials of a plasma thruster for retaining the attitude of small space vehicles in orbit, the press office of Sitronics Group told TASS on Thursday.

The Argonaut uses a water plasma thruster, a less common propulsion system that he said provides a “good balance” of thrust and efficiency. As the name suggests, the thruster uses water as a ...

The spacetech startup had earlier developed world’s first commercial Microwave Plasma Thruster, which used water as fuel, and for which the company had bagged an order from ISRO. The test was ...