Pulsed Plasma Thruster Funded By NASA Could Enable One Of The Coolest Space Missions Imagined If we can travel 550 astronomical units, we can reach a ridiculously cool point in space.

Plasma thrusters used on satellites could be much more powerful than previously believed. It has been believed that Hall thrusters, an efficient kind of electric propulsion widely used in orbit, ...

Plasma thrusters used on satellites could be much more powerful than previously believed. It has been believed that Hall thrusters, an efficient kind of electric propulsion widely used in orbit, ...

The fusion discovery was first made during an SBIR Phase 1 for AFWERX where boronated water was introduced into the pulsed plasma thruster’s exhaust plume. This created alpha particles and gamma ...

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 … ...

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, ...

The WET thrusters are designed to operate within a power range of 500 to 1000 watts. This makes them particularly well-suited for use in small satellites (SmallSats), which have limited power budgets.

It’s not an entirely new concept. NASA began developing its own version back in 2018 under the name Pulsed Fission-Fusion (PuFF). PuFF relied on a device commonly used to compress laboratory ...

NEW YORK, March 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RocketStar Inc. has successfully demonstrated the FireStar Drive, a groundbreaking electric propulsion unit for spacecraft that uses nuclear fusion ...

Scientists are working on a new rocket thruster which could open up “never-ending” deep space exploration by using any type of metal as fuel.. The team at the University of Southampton say ...