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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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 … ...

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 the 1 ...

Hall-effect plasma thrusters are a type of ion drive in which a propellant is accelerated by an electric field. The technology has been around since the 1960s, and Hall-effect thrusters were in ...

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

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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*.