The new plasma rocket engine is poised to accelerate spacecraft to speeds of up to 100 kilometers per second (62 miles per second), reducing travel time to Mars from years to just 30 to 60 days.

The rocket's payload is the Blue Ring Pathfinder, intended to demonstrate some of the Blue Ring spacecraft systems. The original plan was to have launched NASA's ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma ...

Developed by Rosatom’s Troitsk Institute, the new technology could drastically reduce current space travel durations, which ...

For conventional rockets, the matter flow velocity caps out at about 2.8 miles per second. Scientists at Rosatom, meanwhile, have built a laboratory prototype of a plasma electric engine which can ...

Russia has introduced a plasma electric rocket engine that could transform space travel. This technology may reduce the journey to Mars to just 30-60 days. Current missions take nearly a year ...