Electric propulsion is a more efficient alternative ... NASA's Dawn probe visit dwarf planet Ceres The energy for the electromagnetic fields is often provided by solar arrays, and hence the ...

Scientists started exploring gravitic propulsion back in the 1920s through wild experiments with high-voltage capacitors and ...

Electromagnetic acceleration ... Lubin recently wrote in a paper about the technology. Creating such a propulsion system would entail “using a very intense light source to accelerate matter ...

The engine is a plasma propulsion system, working by ionizing the propellant to create plasma, which is then accelerated by an electromagnetic field to form a high-speed particle stream ...