This breakdown and build of a simple plasma thruster should help you on your way. All you really need is some Argon, a large capacitor bank, and a custom nozzle. You’ve already got most of that ...

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 ...

A research team led by the University of Bologna is closing on building a space propulsion system that will use water as fuel. “With this project, we want to take a decisive step towards the ...

Neither rise to the level of today’s AI.” While Miles Space’s water-vapor-based plasma thruster doesn’t provide the same thrust as other methods, it does deliver a higher specific impulse.

The Electric Propulsion System is proposed to replace the chemical propulsion system in future satellites of the space agency and pave the way for communication satellites which use only electric ...

Noting that these thrusters use Xenon as the propellant, the ISRO said the Specific Impulse of the Electric Propulsion System, which is a major performance indicator of a space propulsion system, is ...

MOSCOW, December 9. /TASS/. Russia has launched the trials of a plasma thruster for retaining the attitude of small space vehicles in orbit, the press office of Sitronics Group told TASS on Thursday.

Before assembly in a propulsion device, Miles Space captured imagery during tests of five thruster heads. The imagery was captured with long-exposure photography. SAN FRANCISCO – Miles Space has ...

He graduated from the University of Washington in 2015 where his research focused on integrating an alternative propellant Pulsed Plasma Thruster into the High-Power Helicon Thruster Experiment. Ian ...

ISRO has announced the successful completion of a 1,000-hour life test on its 300mN (millinewton) Stationary Plasma Thruster that is developed for induction in the Electric Propulsion System of ...