The coming decades of space exploration hinge on a single, stubborn number: the 225 million kilometres between Earth and Mars ...
Abstract: Fast and accurate impedance-matching control is essential to maximize power transfer from the 13.56 MHz power supply to the plasma load. This article introduces a feedforward compensation ...
Picture a spacecraft returning to Earth after a long journey. The vehicle slams into the planet’s atmosphere at roughly 17,000 miles per hour. A shockwave erupts. Molecules in the air are ripped apart ...
Last year, people in the U.S. made an estimated $4.7 billion selling their plasma. Donation centers are popping up in middle-class neighborhoods, including suburban strip malls and college towns.
Abstract: Deep space exploration depends on the innovation of propulsion methods, and electric propulsion is a strong development direction. Hall thrusters, with high efficiency and large specific ...
The big picture: In deep-space travel, the race is no longer about who has the biggest rocket – it's about who can build the smartest plasma engine. As the competition to reach Mars intensifies, ...
SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Palladyne AI Corp. (NASDAQ: PDYN and PDYNW) (“Palladyne AI”), a U.S.-based defense and industrial technology company delivering embodied AI-powered collaborative ...
Officials and donors in Casper and Laramie are reacting with surprise this week after BioLife Plasma Services – Casper and BioLife Plasma Services – Laramie announced that their plasma donation ...
Being more efficient and more powerful than chemical rockets, plasma engines are seen as the future of human spaceflight. While NASA-backed plasma rocket projects aim for travel times to Mars be just ...
It has long become obvious that if we are to expand our reach into the solar system, the current means of propulsion for spaceships would simply not do. With such goals set for the near future, the ...
Lowental Hybrid Ltd., a global innovator in hybrid UAV propulsion, today announced that Elbit Systems Ltd., a global defense technology leader and UAV manufacturer, has selected its Native Parallel ...