by cbackenk | 2022-11-17 | news
Greetings! My name is Borja Bayón Buján, and I just joined the ZARATHUSTRA team as a Research Assistant. I am currently finishing UC3M’s Master in Space Engineering (MiSE) and as part of my Final Master Thesis I will use data-driven methods to analyze oscillations...
by cbackenk | 2022-11-07 | news
This coming Wednesday, November 9, 2022, Davide Maddaloni and our PI, Mario Merino, will show us how a plasma rocket works. The workshop will take place during the XXII Science and Innovation Week 2022, organized by the Community of Madrid. It will be a good...
by cbackenk | 2022-10-26 | news
On October 3, the 75th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference was held in Sendai, Japan. Our PI, Mario Merino, was one of the invited speakers with the presentation “Electrodeless plasma thrusters and magnetized plasma expansions for space propulsion”,...
by odriva | 2022-07-06 | news
Our PhD student, Pedro Jimenez, has recently completed a research visit to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico, USA. Under the supervision of Luis Chacon and as part of the Applied Mathematics and Plasma Physics group at LANL, he has been working on...
by cbackenk | 2022-06-28 | news
Some of our team members, Diego García-Lahuerta, Célian Boyé, and Davide Maddaloni, have presented their work on the ZARATHUSTRA project at the PhD Doctoral Meetings – UC3M, which took place during 2022 – 15 & 16 June. It was a good opportunity for them to...
by cbackenk | 2022-06-27 | news
ZARATHUSTRA’s PI, Mario Merino, has been awarded the prestigious Prof. Kuriki award to young professionals by the Electric Rocket Propulsion Society (ERPS) for his contributions to the development of Electrodeless Plasma Thrusters (EPTs). At the award ceremony,...
