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

SAN FRANCISCO – Southern California startup Viridian Space Corp. is developing an electric propulsion system for spacecraft in very low Earth orbit that scoops up air for plasma thrusters. The ...

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

Sending an object to another star is still the stuff of science fiction. But some concrete missions could get us at least part way there. These "interstellar precursor missions" include a trip to the ...

This will install HallThruster.jl using Julia's package manager. For details on setting up and running Hall thruster simulations, see the official documentation. A Tutorial is available here. If you ...

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

to understand the turbulence that limits the performance of their plasma thrusters. Navarro got in contact with plasma expert Carlos Hidalgo at CIEMAT, the Spanish member of EUROfusion. With support ...

Anti-aging fanatic Bryan Johnson bragged his plasma is so squeaky clean that a medical staffer “couldn’t bring himself to throw it away” as the tech mogul revealed a new procedure he is ...

And it was a picture-perfect landing, with the massive booster slowly adjusting its descent using its thrusters to gently be caught by the tower's "chopsticks" arms. "Good, our first catch of the ...

Now, a team led by Sayak Bose, a researcher at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), has made a significant advancement in understanding the underlying ...