Startup Makes Progress in Beamed Propulsion for Reusable Launch Vehicles

Monday, August 3, 2015 - 17:00 in Physics & Chemistry

Broomfield, Colorado-based Escape Dynamics announced July 17 it carried out a small-scale test in the laboratory of its beamed microwave thruster. In that test, the company beamed microwave energy to a thruster, heating helium propellant and generating a

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