Russian scientists claim to have developed a plasma electric rocket engine that could enable travel to Mars in just one to ...

Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, recently developed a new spacecraft engine with impressive specifications. It far surpasses the capabilities of traditional chemical rocket engines, ...

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...

Eco-friendly alternatives to fossil fuels are venturing beyond Earth—and into space.

Scientists are developing a new space propulsion system that uses water as fuel, promising a more sustainable way to explore ...

An efficient way to ionize the gas for MHD acceleration is through electron beam ionization where high-energy electrons are injected directly into the flow. Plasma Fueled Engines (PFE) offer a means ...

This new jet engine uses plasma. Plasma is the fourth state of matter, after solid liquid, and gas. It already exists on the surface of the sun and in lightning, but humans can also create it.

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 ...

The system uses electricity to generate and maintain the plasma, which is drawn from the engine. Combine this reduction in fuel economy with the cost of the system, and it should be clear this ...

Lumartix, a Swiss company specializing in plasma light engine technology, has developed a solar simulator to perform characterization, aging and stabilization tests, with additional light-soaking ...

PETERSBURG, July 27. /TASS/. Negotiations and detailed consideration are currently underway with international partners for overseas supplies of plasma engines made in Russia, Yury Borisov ...