Plasma engines could be the future of human space travel, and Russia’s “manetoplasma rockets” have the most ambitious travel ...
Russian engineers are betting that a radically different rocket engine can compress the long slog to Mars into something closer to an interplanetary commute. Their new plasma propulsion prototype, ...
Plasma propulsion transforms an inert propellant – often hydrogen – into plasma, a superheated mix of ions and electrons.
We’ve been talking about going to Mars for decades, but we haven’t yet cracked how to get people there and back safely and in a reasonable amount of time. The problem is one of distance and the ...
The long, winding road for Franklin Chang-Diaz's plasma rocket engine takes another turn. See full article ...
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