With the recent investment, Magdrive also plans to build a U.K. manufacturing facility and conduct on-orbit tests of high-power electric plasma thrusters. A Magdrive Rogue thruster is scheduled to ...

The Water-based Electric Thrusters (WET) technology aims to transform water into plasma to generate thrust. “The WET project aims to exploit water as a propellant for space thrusters ...

The end goal is to control the plasma, which is naturally unstable, while ensuring that all plasma-facing components are able to withstand its radiation without malfunctioning or polluting it.

“It’s bigger than any ASCENT thruster we’ve sold previously,” Daniel Cavender, director of Rubicon, a division of Plasma Processes ... intently on thermal design. Simply scaling up ...

Moscow: In what could come as a giant leap in spacecraft technology, Russia is working on a new plasma-based rocket engine system which might cut travel time to Mars from existing 7 months to just one ...