Science
A new plasma thruster could speed space travel – SlashGear
A researcher from the US Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory named Fatima Ebrahimi has developed a new type of thruster that could help humans…
A researcher from the US Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory named Fatima Ebrahimi has developed a new type of thruster that could help humans explore space in the future. The new thruster uses magnetic fields to cause plasma particles to shoot out of the back of a rocket propelling the spacecraft forward. Plasma is the fourth state of matter and is an electrically charged gas.
The concept accelerates the particles using magnetic reconnection, a natural process found throughout…
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