XI'AN -- A Chinese research team announced Monday that a space thruster has achieved full-power operation. The 100 kW high-thrust magnetoplasmadynamic thruster they tested is poised to pave the way ...

While Nasa’s budgetary struggle continues, the red planet may be a step closer for China after it unveiled a powerful new ...

A powerful new plasma engine has just been unveiled ... China’s “high-thrust magnetic plasma thruster”, designed by the Xian Aerospace Propulsion Institute, was able to achieve stable ...

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.

It’s a class of electric propulsion that uses an applied magnetic field to accelerate ions to extremely high speeds,” says ...

The magnetic field then accelerates the xenon ions out of the propulsion jet. The resulting thrust is no greater than the pressure of a piece of paper on the outstretched palm of the hand – tiny in ...

Russian scientists at Rosatom's Troitsk Institute are developing a plasma propulsion ... the current, a magnetic field is ...