The technology is named Super Magdrive. Dr. Kim, who created a plasma thruster design for the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched last year, said he hopes the tech can be used for future deep-space ...

Fast forward six months, and he’s back with his Mark II thruster. It operates under the same core principles as the earlier build, but swaps out the open-frame design and acrylic construction ...

a technique to accurately predict the performance of the thruster from the design stage is essential. However, existing methods have limitations such as not being able to precisely handle the ...

Getting that working was very difficult, enough so that [Zach] gave up and switched to a slot thruster design. This was easier to machine, but alas, no easier to make work. The main problem was ...

To reduce the power demand for the 110-newton ASCENT thruster, Rubicon engineers focused intently on thermal design. Simply scaling up small ASCENT thrusters would have produced a 110-newton ...

TASS/. Development tests of the SPD-230 high-power stationary plasma thruster have been completed, Director of the Fakel design bureau Gennady Abramenkov told TASS. "We have completed development ...