The new approach called the Water-based Electric Thrusters (WET) aims to develop a method of converting water into plasma, a ...

This breakdown and build of a simple plasma thruster should help you on your way. All you really need is some Argon, a large capacitor bank, and a custom nozzle. You’ve already got most of that ...

Eco-friendly alternatives to fossil fuels are venturing beyond Earth—and into space.

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 Hall thruster is a high-efficiency propulsion device using plasma that is used for various difficult space missions, such as SpaceX's constellation satellites, Starlink and NASA's asteroid probe, ...

Scientists are developing water-fueled spacecraft technology, aiming for a cleaner, and cost-effective propulsion system.

A Russian plasma engine could cut Mars travel to 30 days with continuous thrust, surpassing ion thrusters. A 300 kW prototype ...

A research team presents an AI assessor for Hall-effect ion thrusters, the engines of satellites and space probes.

MOSCOW, December 9. /TASS/. Russia has launched the trials of a plasma thruster for retaining the attitude of small space vehicles in orbit, the press office of Sitronics Group told TASS on Thursday.

In the electric propulsion community, two computational methods have been previously developed to predict thruster performance and model plasma behavior. Fluid methods assume a distribution function ...

A research team from KAIST Nuclear and Quantum Engineering presents an AI assesser for Hall-effect ion thrusters, the engines of satellites and space probes.