China Develop World’s First Low-Power Superconducting Magnet Plasma Thruster

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Chinese scientists developed the world’s first low-power superconducting magnetoplasmadynamic thruster, which uses helium-cooled superconducting magnets to accelerate plasma more efficiently than traditional systems.

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