The new Russian rocket engine achieves higher acceleration than chemical rockets by using magnetic plasma accelerators, ...

Russia’s new plasma engine could reach Mars in just 30 days. Russia's new plasma rocket engine is engineered to cut the ...

While Nasa’s budgetary struggle continues, the red planet may be a step closer for China after it unveiled a powerful new ...

The research team is working on new materials and cooling systems to counteract these effects and make the engine long-lasting under prolonged use. A cleaner, greener future powered by plasma ...

Weight is a critical issue, as heavy batteries could negate the benefits of this zero-emission propulsion system. Another hurdle is thermal management. Plasma engines generate extreme heat ...

Sustained hypersonic propulsion is a complex problem due to the high temperatures and velocities associated with these flows. In high-hypersonic flow regimes, combustion is limited by low residence ...

Russia’s state atomic energy corporation Rosatom has developed a plasma electric rocket engine that it believes could send spacecraft to Mars in just 30 to 60 days. Rosatom’s propulsion system ...

The engine is a plasma propulsion system, working by ionizing the propellant to create plasma, which is then accelerated by an electromagnetic field to form a high-speed particle stream ...

When [Jay Bowles] demoed his first-generation ion thruster on Plasma Channel ... more like a miniature jet engine than anything that had come before it. Optimizations would need to be made ...

A powerful new plasma engine has just been unveiled by Chinese ... magnetic plasma thruster”, designed by the Xian Aerospace Propulsion Institute, was able to achieve stable operation at its ...