For decades Russia has devoted considerable resources to develop a light compact propulsion as well as power system for future space ships. Over the years Russia has developed a number of different ...

Prospects for a low specific mass multi-megawatt nuclear space power plant were examined assuming closed cycle coupling of a high-temperature fission reactor with magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) energy ...

A way of generating electricity to drive systems on a scramjet-powered aircraft will be tested this month. A magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) generator, using the interaction of magnetic fields with the ...

The TSU Research Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics and their colleagues from the Federal Research and Production Center "Altai" and the State Research Center of the Russian Federation ...

Scientists in Beijing say they have developed a generator that can turn hot gas moving at hypersonic speeds into an intense electric current capable of powering futuristic weapons. The electricity ...