A 1-kilogram steel ball can maintain flight as the plasma expands rapidly from the extremely hot ionization chamber environment. The thrust produced matches jet engine performance, which illustrates ...

demonstrating thrust comparable to conventional jet engines. Tang’s approach differs from other plasma propulsion systems, such as those used by NASA. For example, NASA’s xenon-based plasma ...

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 ...

A powerful new plasma engine has just been unveiled by Chinese engineers – and it is expected to propel China ahead of the United States in the race to develop plasma technology for Mars and ...

An international team of researchers used multi-wavelength observations of active galactic nuclei to study how black holes ...

The plasma engine works by accelerating particles between ... In addition, using water instead of conventional jet fuel would be far more environmentally friendly, helping to begin decarbonising ...

Japan’s JT-60SA fusion reactor project announced first plasma in October of this year to denote the successful upgrades to what is now the world’s largest operational, superconducting tokamak ...

Power mechanics students at Jefferson County Joint Vocational School got revved up after constructing a jet engine model in ...