XI'AN -- A Chinese research team announced Monday that a space thruster has achieved full-power operation. The 100 kW ...

During tests, they successfully fired the thruster more than a hundred times. Their electromagnet generated magnetic fields of 1 tesla with less than 1 watt of magnet power. Compared to ...

When [Jay Bowles] demoed his first-generation ion thruster on Plasma Channel, the resulting video picked up millions of views and got hobbyists and professionals alike talking. While ionic lifters ...

How a tokamak works: The electric field induced by a transformer drives a current (big red arrows) through the plasma column. This generates a poloidal magnetic field that bends the plasma current ...

The heavier positive ions are accelerated out of the thruster, while the more lightweight electrons remain confined in the magnetic field. Similarly, a external cathode is used to neutralize the ...