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Thursday, February 4, 2021

New Rocket Thruster Concept to Take Humans to Mars 10 Times Faster [Interesting Engineering, 29 January 2021]

Title:
New Rocket Thruster Concept to Take Humans to Mars 10 Times Faster

Author:
Fabienne Lang

Published:
Interesting Engineering, 29 January 2021

From the article:
A physicist has come up with a new rocket engine thruster concepts that could take people to Mars ten times more quickly.   
 
The physicist in question, Fatima Ebrahimi, is the concept's inventor and is part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL).  
 
Ebrahimi's study was published in the Journal of Plasma Physics.