Plasma engines could be the future of human space travel, and Russia’s “manetoplasma rockets” have the most ambitious travel goals ...

Russian scientists say they are closing in on a propulsion breakthrough that could compress the journey from Earth to Mars ...

Russia is once again trying to vault itself to the front of the space race, this time with a plasma engine that officials say ...

Plasma propulsion transforms an inert propellant – often hydrogen – into plasma, a superheated mix of ions and electrons. Magnetic fields then funnel and accelerate the ...

There have been some laboratory experiments and theoretical work done to validate aspects of the plasma magnet propulsion concept. The Plasma Magnet is a wind drag device invented almost twenty years ...

Phase Four, Inc. (“Phase Four”), the creator of the radio-frequency thruster for satellite propulsion, announced today its highly anticipated Maxwell Block 3 turn-key plasma propulsion thruster. The ...

Just like litter is a big problem on Earth, space junk is cluttering up outer space. To dispose of this junk, a researcher demonstrated the utility of a special plasma thruster. (Nanowerk News) Space ...