Once in the ionization chamber, the iodine gas is bombarded with electrons, which will knock other electrons off, creating a plasma ... 0.8 milliNewtons while in operation. But the thruster ...

But we've finally been given a study on microwave thrusters that doesn’t rely on impossible physics. Instead, it used a plain old plasma thruster. Plasma thrusters have generally been thought of ...

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 ...

"The helicon plasma thruster is an electrode-less system, which allows it to undertake long operations performed at a high-power level," says research team leader Kazunori Takahashi. "This ...

Plasma ejected from the exhaust end of the thruster can deliver great speeds, typically around 70,000 mph. Cylindrical shaped Hall thrusters (CHTs) lend themselves to miniaturization and have a ...

Is gravity getting your satellite down? Too bad it doesn’t have a Mini-Helicon Plasma Thruster on board. The aeronautics minds at MIT have developed this new propulsion system as a lighter ...

If you're wondering what the heck they are, Hall effect motors are a type of ion thruster that produce a tiny 0.7 pounds of force ... otherwise known as plasma. The magnetic field accelerates ...

Cui specializes in building advanced computer simulations to study how plasma behaves in EP thruster plasma flows. These aren ...

NASA is, as always, looking into the next generation of thrusters to enable ever-more ... program is a Pulsed Plasma Rocket (PPR). The PPR "uses a fission-based nuclear power system to rapidly ...

A miniature solid fuel plasma-based electrical thruster for use on CubeSats is being developed by Omnidea in collaboration with Leicester University. The new thruster is said to be the first of its ...