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The investors at SOSV are betting that plasma will become a nuanced implement capable of everything from enabling fusion ...
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).
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 ...
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 ...
A team of researchers believes the flurry of radio waves emanating from deep space came from a bubble of plasma surrounding a compact object, one of the universe’s densest entities.
Travelling at about 38,000 mph, Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause in August 2012. After entering interstellar space, the spacecraft’s Plasma Wave System detected perturbations in the gas.
Press Release Space Plasma Hurricanes Suggest New Sources of Energy by SpaceRef September 17, 2016 ...
Approaching the unexplored “plasma phase-space” with data science Contributing to solving the challenges of fusion energy development Peer-Reviewed Publication National Institutes of Natural ...