On October 3, the 75th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference was held in Sendai, Japan. Our PI, Mario Merino, was one of the invited speakers with the presentation “Electrodeless plasma thrusters and magnetized plasma expansions for space propulsion“, where he had the opportunity to talk about the progress of the ZARATHUSTRA project.
Our new research paper "Thrust measurements of a waveguide electron cyclotron resonance thruster" just got published in the Journal of Applied Physics. We are especially happy that it was also selected by the editor as "Editor's Pick"! For this work, direct thrust...
A new article, "Non-Maxwellian electron effects on the macroscopic response of a Hall thruster discharge from an axial–radial kinetic model", published on Plasma Sources Science and Technology is co-authored by Enrique Bello Benitez, member of the ZARATHUSTRA team. In...
Our new seminal publication "An implicit, conservative electrostatic particle-in-cell algorithm for paraxial magnetic nozzles" has just been published in the Journal of Computational Physics. Co-authored by Pedro Jiménez, Luis Chacon, and Mario Merino , this...