Question

how can you create a plasma rocket

Answer 1

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The ancients thought there were four “elements”; Earth, Water Air and fire. What they were actually describing was the four known states of matter; Solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Plasma is a state of matter where the individual atoms and molecules are not electrically neutral but have an electric charge, usually because they have been either stripped of one or more electrons or had electrons added to them. Because these particles exhibit an electric charge they can be moved by electric and magnetic fields. The ion rocket takes advantage of this by accelerating a plasma to very high velocities, many thousands of meters per second, which, thanks to Newtons third law, produces thrust. Because a rocket engines “fuel economy” is proportional to the exhaust velocity the faster the exhaust is expelled the longer the “fuel” will last. As a result ion or “plasma” rockets can provide thrust for days and weeks instead of for a few minutes. Unlike chemical rockets where the reaction mass and the energy source are combined, typically in the form of fuel and oxidizer, ion rockets use electricity to propel a chemically inert but electrically charged plasma to the very high velocities necessary to produce thrust for long durations.

The present technology does not support high thrust from ion engines so escape from Earth’s gravity well is still the province of chemical rockets. Lots of boom and roar for a few minutes puts you where the ion thruster does its best job, in the vacuum and free fall of space.

Several spacecraft are now using this propulsion system to support deep space missions.
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