The method – converting water into vapor before ionizing it to create plasma – has great promise for a wide range of ...

Magdrive is working on three versions of its space thrusters, and because they run on solid metal, they might one day even be powered by space junk collected directly in orbit, turning it from threat ...

“What you get is this highly energetic copper plasma leaving the back of the thruster,” Stokes continues ... It allows for a simple design that is particularly suited for mass production ...

More recently, the company started developing two other products in parallel: a Hall-effect electric thruster for spacecraft ... Systems to predict how plasma behaves under electromagnetic ...

Currently, NASA’s Psyche mission and several OneWeb satellites already use Russian-made plasma thrusters ... adding complexity to the design. Despite these uncertainties, if this technology ...

Ionic thrusters are simple in design. They feature one thin copper ... little misleading as they should actually be thought of as plasma weapons. In most sci-fi films, especially Star Wars ...

China’s “high-thrust magnetic plasma thruster”, designed by the Xian Aerospace Propulsion Institute, was able to achieve stable operation at its full power of 100 kilowatts. “The ...

Type One Energy has published the world’s first detailed and self-consistent physics basis for a practical fusion pilot power ...

As Knoxville-based Type One Energy makes plans to build a prototype fusion power plant at the Bull Run Fossil Plant, seven ...

For the first time, scientists have 'photographed' a rare plasma instability, where high-energy electron beams form into spaghetti-like filaments. A new study, published in Physical Review Letters ...