A new plasma thruster could scale up to compete with traditional jet engines.; The plasma is magnified by high-intensity microwaves and pressurized air.; Researchers had to invent a way to measure ...

A Chinese team has demonstrated a prototype of a microwave plasma thruster capable of working in the Earth's atmosphere and producing thrust with an efficiency comparable to the jet engines you'd ...

The ESA will construct a simulation to fully model the reaction, and then use the lab results to verify its accuracy. If they like what they see, higher-powered plasma thrusters may have a ...

A Hall thruster is a high-efficiency propulsion device using plasma that is used for various difficult space missions, such ...

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When [Jay Bowles] demoed his first-generation ion thruster on Plasma Channel, the resulting video picked up millions of views and got hobbyists and professionals alike talking. While ionic lifters … ...

Hall thrusters, a key space technology for missions like SpaceX's Starlink constellation and NASA's Psyche asteroid mission, are high-efficiency electric propulsion devices using plasma technology*.

Hall Thruster Plasma Dynamics; ... Particle-In-Cell (PIC): A simulation technique used to model the behaviour of plasma by tracking individual particles and their interactions.

Pulsed Plasma Thruster Funded By NASA Could Enable One Of The Coolest Space Missions Imagined If we can travel 550 astronomical units, we can reach a ridiculously cool point in space.

A Tohoku University researcher has increased the performance of a high-power electrodeless plasma thruster, moving us one step closer to deeper explorations into space. Innovations in terrestrial ...

Back in 2018 MIT developed a working model plane powered by ionic thrust. It was only capable of flying indoors and incredibly slowly , but the appeal of an aircraft with no moving parts is huge.

[1] Computational model of a Hall thruster. Computer Physics Communications (2004). [2] Analysis of dust charge fluctuations with double-ionized ions and plasma oscillations / instabilities in ...