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For more than 150 years, the OJ 287 galaxy and its brightness variations five billion light years away has both puzzled and ...
As a result, it became possible for the first time in the world to measure the plasma phase-space distribution at a high speed of 10,000 Hz (10,000 times per second).
The investors at SOSV are betting that plasma will become a nuanced implement capable of everything from enabling fusion ...
The laboratory plasma loop studies were conducted by graduate student Eve Stenson together with Bellan and are reported in the August 13 issue of the journal Physical Review Letters.
The plasma instruments weigh just over 7kg, and because Rosetta is far out in deep space, with very little sunlight shining on the solar panels, have been designed to consume less than a quarter ...
It took less than 30 minutes for Varda Space Industries’ W-1 capsule to leave its orbital home of eight months and plummet back to Earth. Such a short travel time not only required serious speed ...
It is filled with compact plasma structures that could only be sustained if the bubble has cooled, at least in some areas, from millions of degrees down to a mild 18,000 degrees Fahrenheit (10,000 ...
Maybe you've already seen the figures for the Pulsed Plasma Rocket (PPR): 100,000 N (73,756 lbf) of thrust and specific impulse of 5,000. For those of us that aren't rocket scientists, those ...
As a result, it became possible for the first time in the world to measure the plasma phase-space distribution at a high speed of 10,000 Hz (10,000 times per second).