How to Fire an Electric Thruster

[@cobrakai4598]

This is just an amazing big step for you guys. Congrats to everyone of you, I'm sure all the work will pay and you will be able to step up and go bigger. PS: You are all such an inspiration for me, even though i couldn't finish my eng degree, im still working as a techinician so i hope i can work in the space industry and be part of all of this development. Cheers from Spain!

[@astranisspace]

Thank you! Technicians are a super important part of making the aerospace world what it is -- best of luck.

[@Pavel_Poluian]

Me quite obvious that since the late 40s of the twentieth century, a secret project has been developing in the United States for the development and production of aircraft, where the lifting force is created using high-frequency vibration. It all started with James Pitts' "Sky Car" vibrating orthotopter umbrella, then the umbrella was closed with a dome and devices appeared according to the scheme of conventional electromagnetic vibrating speakers (membrane + inductance) - fragments of the membrane were found by a farmer in Roswell. Then they created piezoelectric thrusters, or with small dischargers on the surface (they glowed all over the body due to ionization of the air), and now they are planes with plasma propulsion panels (so they are angular - that is, with flat surfaces). Thousands of discharge cells are densely packed into motor panels - they shoot streams of plasma (railgun architecture - coaxial electrodes). The ionized air of the spark discharge is accelerated in the railgun chamber by the Lorentz force to enormous speeds - a kind of ramjet engine is obtained. Just imagine! - tens of thousands of small ramjet engines assembled in panels and launching plasma synchronously at a huge frequency (hundreds of kilohertz). Plasma jets form toroidal air vortices - this air cushion creates lift and acceleration. See, for example, the MARAUDER (Magnetically Accelerated Ring to Achieve Ultra-high Directed Energy and Radiation) project. My article "UFOs are made in the USA" and the books "UFO Hunt" and "UFO Elimination" describe all this in detail. The technology is quite mundane - it is known in great detail thanks to information leaks. For example, air ionization in the coaxial elements of a railgun is created using radiation (radioactive polonium is introduced into the metal). Devices of this type were used throughout the 50s-60s-70s-80s for secret missions (they took off, as a rule, from special submarines). With the fall of the USSR, their use by the United States was practically curtailed (in the novel "Little Green Men" by Christopher Buckley, speechwriter Bush Sr., a scene is described where the US president decides to curtail the "flying saucer" project). The winding down of the project can be recorded by the drop in magnesium consumption in the United States, since such fuel was used in fuel cells (magnesium strips were burned in forced galvanic batteries), this is 2007-2008. However, later the development of the technology continued in the Russian Federation and China (the technology was restored by reverse engineering methods for downed devices). Secrecy, however, was maintained and there was no civilian use because the technology was not suitable for it - harmful microwave radiation from pulsed plasma thrusters (harm to pilots and impact on electrical appliances inside and along the flight line). The payload is small (but one nuclear charge is enough). There is no radio communication - the discharges create interference and jam electronics - unmanned vehicles can fly and maneuver only in accordance with the program. Previously, there was a narrow application profile - rare spy missions (so that pilots do not get a lot of radiation). Reconnaissance aircraft of this type were often observed at military bases, missile launch sites and airfields. They were even seen by peaceful geologists in the taiga, where clearings for seismic exploration were laid - UFOs flew there to check whether military construction was underway (I myself heard stories about this))). I think that soon this technology will be declassified, and cargo airships with flickering round plasma panels on the surface of the hull will appear in the Arctic sky.

[@MongoosePreservationSociety]

The kids are alright

[@metaflame113]

Well done guys!!!

[@nicholas6789]

Mr Zhang is wearing a SpaceX tshirt.

[@TomBales]

Well I gotta say, I'm really learning a lot watching these videos. About the only thing I haven't learned is what happened to Arcturus, when it happened, and why I still have only 7 Mps download speeds from an ISP that won't even talk to me about it because they know they don't have to. I suppose we rural Alaska types got shuffled to the bottom of the list, eh?

[@SuhailGanondorf1999Singh]

Hello, I am just a curious lad and I was wondering what thruster you guys were using. is it a hall thruster? if so which was it made in house or was it from another company?

[@colinwarn4606]

It is a hall thruster.

[@jamj3687]

Cool Beans!!