Engineers developed an engine prototype which could reach unprecedented speeds, cutting down interplanetary travel time.

Russian scientists claim to have developed a plasma electric rocket engine that could enable travel to Mars in just one to ...

Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, recently developed a new spacecraft engine with impressive specifications.

Russia is testing a new plasma rocket engine that would drastically reduce travel time from earth to mars using charged ...

The development of the engine is expected to make interplanetary trips much faster and expand humanity's access to worlds ...

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...

"Electric propulsion works by ionizing a neutral gas, usually xenon, and then using electric fields to accelerate the resulting ions. The ions, now forming a high-speed plasma beam, push the ...

Electric (plasma) propulsion devices have been used for applications such as station-keeping and orbit transfer, in place of chemical rockets, because they provide a higher specific impulse. Detailed ...