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

Those who watched The Space Between Us would surely have a fresh memory of the plane that Gary Oldman’s character flew from the ground into space. The plane probably used plasma jet engines and they ...

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

Russia's state atomic energy corporation, Rosatom, has developed a plasma electric rocket engine that could send spacecraft to Mars in just 30 to 60 days. The plasma engine works by accelerating ...

We’ve been talking about going to Mars for decades, but we haven’t yet cracked how to get people there and back safely and in a reasonable amount of time. The problem is one of distance and the ...

Plasma propulsion transforms an inert propellant – often hydrogen – into plasma, a superheated mix of ions and electrons.

July 2, 2009 – Ad Astra Rocket Company has successfully demonstrated operation of its VX-200 plasma engine first stage at full power and under superconducting conditions in tests conducted today at ...

A plasma rocket engine that may one day get a test on the International Space Station has reached a power milestone in one of the radio-frequency (RF) systems used to heat the electrically charged ...

PLASMA ENGINE FACILITY: Safran has inaugurated a new plasma engine facility at its space propulsion plant in Vernon, north of Paris. The facility, partly financed with a 1 million euro ($1.3 million) ...