It is being called an "ion superhighway" and it opens up the ... said in a statement. “This acceleration could also have benefits for energy storage, which could be a big impact.” ...

For example, in Spock’s Brain, the alien-of-the-week’s ion drive gave Scotty engineering ... add up and over time can produce significant acceleration.

All acceleration and braking manoeuvres taken together ... is almost the thrust of a US Delta II rocket. The fuel economy of the ion drive enables Dawn to follow an ambitious trajectory, which would ...

But unlike the ion drive featured in the infamous “Spock ... Xenon, however, is much less prone to wear out the acceleration grids. Sometimes in spaceflight, less is more.

The acceleration of charged particles to ultra ... The two approaches — laser wakefield and ion beam accelerators — promise reductions of many orders of magnitude in size, cost and complexity ...