Activation and support 07/12/2022 888 views 45 love An innovative instrument supported by ESA to sample the space weather environment in situ is about to join the International Space Station. Langmuir’s Norwegian multi-needle probe, m-NLP, to be installed on the ISS’ European-made Bartolomeo platform, an open ‘porch’ to space, will map the ionospheric plasma surrounding …
An image of cross-field electron transport and plasma detachment from the magnetic nozzle. Credit: Kazunori Takahashi A research group has demonstrated that spontaneously excited plasma waves can be the solution to a problem long associated with magnetic nozzle plasma thrusters, shattering conventional thinking. Details of their research were published in the journal Scientific reports on …
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