Russian scientists at Rosatom's Troitsk Institute are developing a plasma propulsion system that could change space travel.

Sustained hypersonic propulsion is a complex problem due to the high temperatures and velocities associated with these flows. In high-hypersonic flow regimes, combustion is limited by low residence ...

A powerful new plasma engine has just been unveiled by Chinese ... magnetic plasma thruster”, designed by the Xian Aerospace Propulsion Institute, was able to achieve stable operation at its ...

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 ...

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 ...

The engine is a plasma propulsion system, working by ionizing the propellant to create plasma, which is then accelerated by an electromagnetic field to form a high-speed particle stream ...

MOSCOW, July 1. /TASS/. Russian and Belarusian scientists are discussing the prospects of jointly developing a plasma propulsion engine for spacecraft, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said at ...

The space shuttle main engine, the best chemical rocket in ... which has been used in low-thrust plasma propulsion experiments at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Currently, chemical propulsion is utilised to raise satellite orbits. This innovation will lead to significant mass savings ...