Articles tagged: plasma magnet

• April 2020 Plasma Clipper - opening the age of sail, in space travel

  ... able to utilise some of it to go anywhere in the solar system in an outward direction. Plasma magnetic sail based on rotating magnetic field generating plasma currents. Two polyphase magnetic coils are used to drive steady ring currents in the local...

  • Ion Propulsion
  • Plasma Clipper
  • plasma magnet
  • solar sail
  • solar wind
  Authors: Jeff Greason     Kerry Hebden    
• 10 August 2018 Fiery inferno awaits NASA's Parker Solar Probe

  ... the heat-shield does its job, the probe is equipped with four instrument suites designed to study plasma, magnetic fields, energetic particles, and image the solar wind. The Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons...

  • FIELDS instrument
  • Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun
  • Parker Solar Probe
  • Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons investigation (SWEAP)
  • Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe (WISPR)