On November 21, 2023 the Royal Academy of Engineering (Real Academia de Ingeniería) issued the Young Researcher Medal to Mario Merino, PI of the ZARATHUSTRA Project.
The medal recognizes his outstanding contributions to the design, modeling, simulation, and testing of plasma space propulsion and, more specifically, electrodeless plasma thrusters. We congratulate Mario on his well-deserved achievement!
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....