Jul 21, 2020
A Chinese team at Wuhan University’s Institute of Technological Sciences has demonstrated a prototype of a microwave plasma thruster that can work in Earth’s atmosphere and produces thrust with an efficiency similar to the jet engines on modern aircraft. The team describes the engine in the journal AIP Advances. Plasma...
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