JPL’s condensable metal propellant (CoMeT) vacuum facility - Credit- NASA_JPL-Caltech

Lithium Fire: How NASA’s New Electromagnetic Thruster Could Redefine the Journey to Mars

This was not merely a proof of concept. It was a validation of decades of theoretical and experimental work surrounding magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) propulsion, a technology first explored in the 1960s but never brought to operational maturity.

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