On May 9-12, the EPIC Workshop 2023 took place at the “Città della Scienza” conference centre in Naples, Italy. ZARATHUSTRA’s PI, Mario Merino, had the opportunity to give a presentation about the project. In his talk he highlighted the advances in electrodeless plasma thruster modeling, and detailed the experiments and data-driven analysis of the project so far.
On March 2nd, 2024, Mario Merino, PI of the ZARATHUSTRA project, was appointed as Full Professor (Catedrático de Universidad) of Aerospace Engineering at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. This accomplishment highlights the significance of ERC Starting grants in...
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...