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Hence an electric propulsion system is also referred to as an ion engine. According to Sir Isaac Newton's third law of motion, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The plume of ions ...

Doctoral candidate Youngho Kim, Professor Wonho Choe and Doctoral candidate Jaehong Park of the Department of Nuclear and ...

China’s new nuclear-battery attack submarine – a unique hybrid boat running on batteries like a conventional sub but which ...

Launched in 2009, it orbited at an altitude of around 155 miles (250km), using an ion propulsion system to fire out charged particles behind the spacecraft. This gave it a constant level of thrust ...

There are alternatives to chemical rockets, such as ion drives and solar sails ... candidate for this is the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system or nuclear rocket. First conceived of in ...

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

Supercomputer simulations advance electric propulsion by tackling ion plume challenges for safer space missions.