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Diversified Technologies (DTI) is growing a brand new spacecraft engine powered by in-situ propellants that it claims will present enhanced in-space maneuverability and better payload capability. The Atmosphere-Refueling Magnetic Induction Plasma Engine (AR-MIPE) gives excessive thrust at particular impulse with out the necessity for electrodes, which the corporate says will prolong thruster life and allow using low value in-situ propellants. Diversified Technologies introduced the brand new engine, Jan. 3.

By using an electrodeless inductive thruster which minimizes plasma-wall interactions and by capturing and storing propellants obtainable all through the photo voltaic system as gasoline, the AR-MIPE will be capable to assist long-term interplanetary exploration missions.

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