Mario Merino was interviewed today by Manuel Seara, director of the program “A Hombros de Gigantes” in the national radio (RNE). They spoke of rockets, chemical propulsion, and plasma thrusters, with an emphasis on the objectives of the ERC-ZARATHUSTRA project.
Marco Inchingolo has successfully defended this PhD thesis "Design, development, and characterization of a microwave electrodeless plasma thruster". The last part of this thesis was supported under the framework of the ZARATHUSTRA project. We congratulate Marco for...
Célian Boye, member of the ZARATHUSTRA team, is currently at the ICARE Laboratory of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique for a 3-month research stay. A main focus of his stay is the experimental testing of the third prototype of the Magnetic Arch Thruster...
On March 16th 2024, Mario Merino participated in an outreach activity for gifted students at the Instituto Gerardo Diego de Pozuelo de Alarcón in Madrid. The students discovered what is plasma and how we can use it to create very efficient space propulsion systems....