The new plasma rocket engine is poised to accelerate spacecraft to speeds of up to 100 kilometers per second (62 miles per ...

While Nasa’s budgetary struggle continues, the red planet may be a step closer for China after it unveiled a powerful new ...

The scientists at Rosatom have successfully developed a laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator. The engine demonstrates enhanced thrust ...

was developed in the Laboratory of Plasma Rocket Engines at MEPhI and is the best in Russia among engines of this class in terms of dimensions, weight, energy efficiency and safety in operation.

A fusion rocket, for example ... which also develops plasma thrusters and is designed for more near-term fission engines as well, described the project to Live Science as one of “complete ...

It uses Hall Effect Thrusters, which generate thrust by ejecting neutral plasma. In 2023 Pulsar Fusion ... intelligence to design a hyper-fast space rocket, with the aim being to create a deep space ...