One study demonstrated a magnetic nozzle radiofrequency plasma thruster achieving an efficiency approaching twenty per cent through refined antenna modes and propellant injection strategies [4].

Helicon Plasma Propulsion: A propulsion technique that utilises helicon waves to generate and sustain high-density plasma, which is subsequently accelerated within a magnetic nozzle.

This article is devoted to the presentation of a numerical model of a Helicon Plasma Thruster (HPT) which relies on: 1) the 3-D adVanced fluId dRifT diffUsion plaSma solver (3D-VIRTUS) for the ...

The researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics want to fetch the Sun's fire to Earth. A future fusion power plant is to produce energy by fusing nuclei of the two heavy hydrogen ...

The capillary-based pulsed plasma thruster (PPT) has high-energy transfer efficiency, which provides potential to improve traditional PPT performance. In this paper, the discharge characteristics of a ...