plasma engine

Plasma engine advances would also speed up human expansion into space.

However, this form of plasma engine is only one of many types.

Plasma engines are better suited for long-distance interplanetary space travel missions.

The plasma engine was slow but steady.

These and other considerations moved me to carefully correct our course by means of intermittent thrusts from the auxiliary plasma engines.

Though far less powerful than conventional rocket engines, plasma engines are able to operate at higher efficiencies and for longer periods of time.

One of the defining characteristics of the game is the sound generated by the futuristic plasma engines while running at maximum velocity.

The Kuranda took three months to get me to Jupiter, powered by low-temperature ion plasma engines, producing a small but steady thrust the whole way.

His Robotix body is a skeletal humanoid with wing-like radar panels and plasma engines as his legs and left arm.

Nuclear-electric or plasma engines, operating for long periods at low thrust and powered by fission reactors, can reach speeds much greater than chemically powered vehicles.

MagiQuest Online makes use of the Plasma engine used in Myst Online: Uru Live.

The continuous firing of the plasma engine would cut the astronauts' Earth-to-Mars trip from six months to three months, reducing the astronauts' exposure to damaging cosmic radiation and calcium-draining weightlessness.

They were originally planned to be equipped with pulsed plasma engines but actually launched with gas thrusters; unusually for communication satellites, they are powered by MHW-RTGs rather than by solar panels.

The Asteroid Tugboat: to prevent an asteroid from hitting Earth, a space tug equipped with plasma engines could give it a push, 13 October 2003, Scientific American, by Schweickart, Lu, Hut and Chapman.

Furthermore, since every part of a VASIMR engine is magnetically shielded and does not come into direct contact with plasma, the potential durability of this engine design is greater than other ion/plasma engine designs.

The magnetic field oscillating amplified thruster (MOA) (often named as plasma engine by the media) is a versatile electrothermodynamic system, which is able to accelerate nearly every medium to extremely high velocities, thereby generating a high energetic plasma jet in the exhaust.

For example, scientists have made great strides with plasma engines - which are much more effective than traditional chemical engines and use radio waves to heat their fuel and magnetic fields to direct a stream of ultrahot ionized gases - which could be used as space "tug boats."