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New concept for rocket thruster exploits the mechanism behind solar flares – EurekAlert
A new type of rocket thruster that could take humankind to Mars and beyond has been proposed by a physicist at PPPL. The device would apply magnetic fields to cause…
IMAGE: PPPL physicist Fatima Ebrahimi in front of an artist’s conception of a fusion rocket
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Credit: Elle Starkman (PPPL Office of Communications) and ITER
A new type of rocket thruster that could take humankind to Mars and beyond has been proposed by a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL).
The device would apply magnetic fields to cause particles of plasma, electrically charged gas also known as the fourth state of matter, to shoot…
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