The new Russian rocket engine achieves higher acceleration than chemical rockets by using magnetic plasma accelerators, ...

XI'AN -- A Chinese research team announced Monday that a space thruster has achieved full-power operation. The 100 kW ...

Russia’s new plasma engine could reach Mars in just 30 days. Russia's new plasma rocket engine is engineered to cut the ...

The “caterpillar drive” in The Hunt for Red October allowed the sub to travel virtually undetected through the ocean, but real examples of magnetohydrodynamic drives (MHDs) are rare.

In an ion propulsion system, electrons are fired into a magnetic field containing the noble gas xenon ... Each kilogram of fuel will then have produced 10 times as much thrust as a kilogram of ...

A plasma rocket, on the other hand, is a type of electric propulsion system ... the current creates a magnetic field that pushes the particles out of the engine. The plasma receives a directed ...