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,...
by cbackenk | 2022-06-14 | news
ZARATHUSTRA’s PI, Mario Merino, will present the first results of the project at the upcoming International Electric Propulsion Conference (IEPC), which will take place in Boston (USA) on June 19-23, 2022. The paper ‘Preliminary model of the plasma...
by cbackenk | 2022-06-14 | news
Pedro Jiménez, a team member EP2 research group, is going to present the paper “Radiofrequency Plasma Heating for Electrodeless Space Thruster Applications” at IMPI 56, where we showcase the research lines of the group on the modeling of the plasma-wave...
by cbackenk | 2022-04-01 | news
Hello reader! My name is Davide Maddaloni, a member of the Zarathustra team as a PhD student. Let me introduce myself. My thesis is about detecting, analyzing and understanding the oscillations occurring within the plasma of different types of thrusters, primarily on...
by cbackenk | 2022-02-25 | news
The first joint workshop between the ERC Starting Grant projects NEXTFLOW (Next-generation flow diagnostics for control) and ZARATHUSTRA (Revolutionizing advanced electrodeless plasma thrusters for space transportation) took place this week. The workshop brought...
by cbackenk | 2021-12-14 | news
Our principal investigator, Mario Merino, presented yesterday our ERC project at the Physics Department of UC3M. Mario Merino talked about the main objectives of our project and the first results of our research. He also took the opportunity of the invited talk to...
