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The US Navy’s recently announced Principles of Undersea Magnetohydrodynamic Pumps (PUMP) intends to jump-start the technology for a new era. Dating back to the 1960s, research on MHDs has been ...

SESE researchers have been investigating electric propulsion technology, which creates thrust by expelling ions. A key breakthrough is a magnetic focusing Hall thruster, which uses a specially ...