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Revolutionary new jet engine turns electricity directly into thrust
However, a breakthrough from Wuhan University offers a glimpse of a future where jet propulsion ... Scalable Plasma Jets ...
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Water-based plasma thrusters could power spacecraft for deep space missions
Scientists are developing a new space propulsion system that uses water as fuel, promising a more sustainable way to explore ...
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Groundbreaking new jet engine generates thrust directly from electricity
However, larger aircraft will require significantly ... demonstrating thrust comparable to conventional jet engines. Tang’s approach differs from other plasma propulsion systems, such as those ...
NASA Just Fired up Its Quiet Supersonic Jet—and It Looks Like Pure Speed
When planes exceed Mach 1 (the speed of sound, or about 767 miles per hour—1,234 kilometers/hour for those using the metric ...
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Upgraded Plasma Thruster Is Smaller, More Powerful
When [Jay Bowles] demoed his first-generation ion thruster on Plasma Channel ... more like a miniature jet engine than anything that had come before it. Optimizations would need to be made ...