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”!...
by odriva | 2024-02-12 | news
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...
by odriva | 2024-02-06 | news
Our new seminal publication “An implicit, conservative electrostatic particle-in-cell algorithm for paraxial magnetic nozzles” has just been published in the Journal of Computational Physics. Co-authored by Pedro Jiménez, Luis Chacon, and Mario Merino ,...
