by odriva | 2024-05-06 | news
Pedro Jiménez has successfully defended this PhD thesis “Analysis of the wave-plasma ineraction in electrodeless plasma thrusters”. Pedro’s work included significant contributions to the ZARATHUSTRA project, the most important being his 2 publications “Analysis...
by odriva | 2024-04-22 | news
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...
by odriva | 2024-04-16 | news
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. The main focus of his stay is the advanced experimental testing of the third prototype of the Magnetic...
by odriva | 2024-03-26 | news
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....
by odriva | 2024-03-14 | news
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...
by odriva | 2024-03-08 | news
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”!...
