This May ZARATHUSTRA’s P.I. Mario Merino was appointed as Adjunct Vice Rector for Inovation, Technology Transfer and Science Park. This position allows him to play an active role on issues related to the research activity of teaching and/or research staff, transfer of research results, entrepreneurship and innovation, research ethics, university research institutes, scientific-technological park, open science and scientific dissemination.
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....