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 ...

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 ...

Rick Kohnert, Scott Robertson, and Scott Knappmiller with the two rocket payloads for noctilucent cloud particles. Dusty plasma is plasma containing small particles in suspension. In industry, dust is ...

“It’s bigger than any ASCENT thruster we’ve sold previously,” Daniel Cavender, director of Rubicon, a division of Plasma Processes, told SpaceNews. And as far as Cavender can ...