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Neutralizer for an ion thruster of a spacecraft
- Patent number 12,168,976
- Issue date Dec 17, 2024
- ENPULSION GmbH
- David Krejci
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
Information Patent Grant
Propulsion system for spacecraft
- Patent number 12,157,586
- Issue date Dec 3, 2024
- ORBION SPACE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Lyon B. King
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
Information Patent Grant
Microplasma-based heaterless, insertless cathode
- Patent number 12,078,154
- Issue date Sep 3, 2024
- The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, for and on behalf of the...
- Kunning Gabriel Xu
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
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Applied rotations of anisotropic homopolar magnetic domains
- Patent number 12,062,487
- Issue date Aug 13, 2024
- SMOKEY HAWK SOLITONS, LLC
- Thomas Hunt Hawkins
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
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Synchronous polyphase alternating current electrostatic ion thruste...
- Patent number 12,030,673
- Issue date Jul 9, 2024
- Vassilios Horozoglou
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
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System and method for space resource mining and maneuvering
- Patent number 12,031,434
- Issue date Jul 9, 2024
- Lunar Resources, Inc.
- Robert B. Adams
- E21 - EARTH DRILLING MINING
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Applied rotations of anisotropic homopolar magnetic domains
- Patent number 12,027,312
- Issue date Jul 2, 2024
- Smokey Hawk Solitions, LLC
- Thomas Hunt Hawkins
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
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Electrodeless plasma thruster with closed-ring-shaped gas discharge...
- Patent number 12,012,234
- Issue date Jun 18, 2024
- Khalifa University of Science and Technology
- Andrei Ivanovich Shumeiko
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
Information Patent Grant
Intake system for an atmosphere breathing electric thruster for a s...
- Patent number 12,006,923
- Issue date Jun 11, 2024
- VKI—von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
- Damien Le Quang
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
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Rocket exhaust driven amplification (REDA) of VLF waves in space
- Patent number 12,006,069
- Issue date Jun 11, 2024
- The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secreta...
- Paul A. Bernhardt
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
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Precision manifold for an ion thruster using characterized flow res...
- Patent number 12,006,922
- Issue date Jun 11, 2024
- United States of America as represented by the Administrator of National Aero...
- Timothy G. Gray
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
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Ion propulsion device
- Patent number 11,993,402
- Issue date May 28, 2024
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Jacques Gierak
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
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Electric propulsion based spacecraft propulsion systems and methods...
- Patent number 11,945,606
- Issue date Apr 2, 2024
- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
- Gordon C. Wu
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
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Plasma propulsion systems and associated systems and methods
- Patent number 11,939,966
- Issue date Mar 26, 2024
- Electric Sky Holdings, Inc.
- Jeffrey Greason
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
Information Patent Grant
Annular hollow cathode
- Patent number 11,937,361
- Issue date Mar 19, 2024
- The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secreta...
- Michael McDonald
- H05 - ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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Control valve and propulsion device
- Patent number 11,920,572
- Issue date Mar 5, 2024
- L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude Et L'Exploitation Des Procedes Claude
- Yoann Fendler
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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Ion thruster for thrust vectored propulsion of a spacecraft
- Patent number 11,905,936
- Issue date Feb 20, 2024
- ENPULSION GmbH
- Nembo Buldrini
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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Radio-frequency plasma generating system and method for adjusting t...
- Patent number 11,885,315
- Issue date Jan 30, 2024
- THRUSTME
- Stanislav Dudin
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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Sources for plasma assisted electric propulsion
- Patent number 11,834,204
- Issue date Dec 5, 2023
- Nano-Product Engineering, LLC
- Vladimir Gorokhovsky
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
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Compact plasma thruster
- Patent number 11,828,273
- Issue date Nov 28, 2023
- The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
- Wei Liang
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
Information Patent Grant
Scalable power processing units for hall-effect thruster propulsion...
- Patent number 11,815,074
- Issue date Nov 14, 2023
- United States of America as represented by the Administrator of National Aero...
- Gabriel F. Benavides
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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Field emission propulsion system and method for calibrating and ope...
- Patent number 11,801,949
- Issue date Oct 31, 2023
- MORPHEUS SPACE GmbH
- Daniel Bock
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
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Ignition process for narrow channel hall thruster
- Patent number 11,781,536
- Issue date Oct 10, 2023
- Technion Research and Development Foundation Ltd.
- Igal Kronhaus
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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Micro-propulsion system
- Patent number 11,760,508
- Issue date Sep 19, 2023
- The George Washington University
- Michael Keidar
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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Optimized power balanced low thrust transfer orbits utilizing split...
- Patent number 11,753,188
- Issue date Sep 12, 2023
- The Boeing Company
- Jeffrey Scott Noel
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
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Enhanced thrust from ion-propelled spacecraft via tethered ion blocker
- Patent number 11,722,123
- Issue date Aug 8, 2023
- The Boeing Company
- Brian Tillotson
- B82 - NANO-TECHNOLOGY
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Electrospray devices and methods for fabricating electrospray devices
- Patent number 11,708,182
- Issue date Jul 25, 2023
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Melissa Alyson Smith
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
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Methods and apparatus for performing propulsion operations using el...
- Patent number 11,708,181
- Issue date Jul 25, 2023
- The Boeing Company
- James J. Peterka
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
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Method and device for operating a liquid metal-ion source or liquid...
- Patent number 11,705,299
- Issue date Jul 18, 2023
- Technische Universitát Dresden
- Martin Tajmar
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
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Maneuvering system for earth orbiting satellites with electric thru...
- Patent number 11,661,213
- Issue date May 30, 2023
- Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
- Michael Glogowski
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

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LIQUID METAL ION SOURCE
- Publication number 20230369003
- Publication date Nov 16, 2023
- ENPULSION GmbH
- Ivanhoe VASILJEVICH
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Application
SPACECRAFT THRUSTER VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT UNIT
- Publication number 20230365277
- Publication date Nov 16, 2023
- Maxar Space LLC
- Theodore Marcopulos
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Application
Synchronous Polyphase Alternating Current Electrostatic Ion Thruste...
- Publication number 20230348114
- Publication date Nov 2, 2023
- Vassilios Horozoglou
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Application
SATELLITE INCLUDING CROSSOVER POWER PROCESSING UNITS FOR ELECTRIC T...
- Publication number 20230294846
- Publication date Sep 21, 2023
- Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc.
- Brian A. Koch
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Application
ELECTRODELESS PLASMA THRUSTER WITH CLOSE RING-SHAPED GAS DISCHARGE...
- Publication number 20230271728
- Publication date Aug 31, 2023
- Khalifa University of Science and Technology
- Andrei Ivanovich SHUMEIKO
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
Information Patent Application
METHOD FOR OPTIMISING THE ORBITAL TRANSFER OF AN ELECTRICALLY PROPE...
- Publication number 20230211895
- Publication date Jul 6, 2023
- AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
- Ivan LAINE
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Application
Embedded Electrospray Thruster
- Publication number 20230211897
- Publication date Jul 6, 2023
- Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
- Amelia Diane Greig
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Application
Applied Rotations of Anisotropic Homopolar Magnetic Domains
- Publication number 20230207175
- Publication date Jun 29, 2023
- Smokey Hawk Solitons, LLC
- Thomas Hunt Hawkins
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Application
Plasma Thruster With Birdcage Antenna
- Publication number 20230182929
- Publication date Jun 15, 2023
- UNIVERSITAT STUTTGART
- Francesco ROMANO
- B33 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
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SATELLITE PROPELLANT TANK WITH INTEGRATED REGULATION
- Publication number 20230182928
- Publication date Jun 15, 2023
- Maxar Space LLC
- Giovanni Lenguito
- B33 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
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PROPULSION SYSTEM FOR SPACECRAFT
- Publication number 20230150698
- Publication date May 18, 2023
- ORBION SPACE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Lyon B. King
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
Information Patent Application
SATELLITE HAVING ACTIVELY COOLED ELECTRIC THRUSTER
- Publication number 20230151759
- Publication date May 18, 2023
- Earth Observant Inc.
- Nathan Rosenblad
- F01 - MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL STEAM ENGINES
Information Patent Application
PROPULSION SYSTEM FOR SPACECRAFT
- Publication number 20230150697
- Publication date May 18, 2023
- ORBION SPACE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Lyon B. King
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
Information Patent Application
Turbomolecular Air-Scoop for Satellite Air-Breathing Electric Propu...
- Publication number 20230131644
- Publication date Apr 27, 2023
- Viridian Space Corporation
- Matthew S. FELDMAN
- F02 - COMBUSTION ENGINES HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
Information Patent Application
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING FORCES USING ASYMMETRICAL ELECTROS...
- Publication number 20230121805
- Publication date Apr 20, 2023
- Andrew Neil Aurigema
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
Information Patent Application
NEUTRALIZER FOR AN ION THRUSTER OF A SPACECRAFT
- Publication number 20230106067
- Publication date Apr 6, 2023
- ENPULSION GmbH
- David KREJCI
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
Information Patent Application
NANOSTRUCTURED SURFACE PLASMONIC RESONANCE/PHOTOTHERMAL ABSORBING...
- Publication number 20230089542
- Publication date Mar 23, 2023
- Schiffbauer Technologies, Ltd.
- Jarrod Schiffbauer
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Application
ION BOOSTER FOR THRUST GENERATION
- Publication number 20230083683
- Publication date Mar 16, 2023
- University of Miami
- Tomas Antony Pribanic SOLARI
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Application
Spacecraft Propulsion Devices and Systems with Microwave Excitation
- Publication number 20230068871
- Publication date Mar 2, 2023
- MOMENTUS SPACE LLC
- Jason Hummelt
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Application
DEMON quantum mehanical (H/C)/propulsion system
- Publication number 20230058724
- Publication date Feb 23, 2023
- Stephen Richmond Cummings
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
Information Patent Application
THRUSTER ASSEMBLY
- Publication number 20230037400
- Publication date Feb 9, 2023
- Aurora Propulsion Technologies Oy
- Pihla PIETIKÄINEN
- G05 - CONTROLLING REGULATING
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CONTROL VALVE AND PROPULSION DEVICE
- Publication number 20220381231
- Publication date Dec 1, 2022
- L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l?Exploitation des Procedes Ge...
- Yoann FENDLER
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
Information Patent Application
ION PROPULSION DEVICE
- Publication number 20220348361
- Publication date Nov 3, 2022
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Jacques GIERAK
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Application
RADIO-FREQUENCY PLASMA GENERATING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING T...
- Publication number 20220341405
- Publication date Oct 27, 2022
- THRUSTME
- Stanislav DUDIN
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
Information Patent Application
PROPELLANT INJECTOR SYSTEM FOR PLASMA PRODUCTION DEVICES AND THRUSTERS
- Publication number 20220281620
- Publication date Sep 8, 2022
- PHASE FOUR, INC.
- David TSAI
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
Information Patent Application
ENGINE MODULAR DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION FOR REDUCED COST AND ACCELER...
- Publication number 20220234766
- Publication date Jul 28, 2022
- Michael J. Patterson
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
Information Patent Application
METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ION THRUSTER, AND ION THRUSTER SYSTEM
- Publication number 20220205437
- Publication date Jun 30, 2022
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Jacques GIERAK
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
Information Patent Application
MICRO SCALABLE THRUSTERS FOR ADAPTIVE MISSION PROFILES IN SPACE - U...
- Publication number 20220194633
- Publication date Jun 23, 2022
- University of Tennessee Research Foundation
- Jose Lino Vasconcelos da Costa
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
Information Patent Application
RECONFIGURABLE POWER PROCESSING UNIT FOR SPACECRAFT OPERATIONS
- Publication number 20220194634
- Publication date Jun 23, 2022
- Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc.
- Erich H. Soendker
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
Information Patent Application
Rocket Exhaust Driven Amplification (REDA) of VLF Waves in Space
- Publication number 20220185507
- Publication date Jun 16, 2022
- The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secreta...
- Paul A. Bernhardt
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...

Ion or plasma engines

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Neutralizer for an ion thruster of a spacecraft

Propulsion system for spacecraft

Microplasma-based heaterless, insertless cathode

Applied rotations of anisotropic homopolar magnetic domains

Synchronous polyphase alternating current electrostatic ion thruste...

System and method for space resource mining and maneuvering

Applied rotations of anisotropic homopolar magnetic domains

Electrodeless plasma thruster with closed-ring-shaped gas discharge...

Intake system for an atmosphere breathing electric thruster for a s...

Rocket exhaust driven amplification (REDA) of VLF waves in space

Precision manifold for an ion thruster using characterized flow res...

Ion propulsion device

Electric propulsion based spacecraft propulsion systems and methods...

Plasma propulsion systems and associated systems and methods

Annular hollow cathode

Control valve and propulsion device

Ion thruster for thrust vectored propulsion of a spacecraft

Radio-frequency plasma generating system and method for adjusting t...

Sources for plasma assisted electric propulsion

Compact plasma thruster

Scalable power processing units for hall-effect thruster propulsion...

Field emission propulsion system and method for calibrating and ope...

Ignition process for narrow channel hall thruster

Micro-propulsion system

Optimized power balanced low thrust transfer orbits utilizing split...

Enhanced thrust from ion-propelled spacecraft via tethered ion blocker

Electrospray devices and methods for fabricating electrospray devices

Methods and apparatus for performing propulsion operations using el...

Method and device for operating a liquid metal-ion source or liquid...

Maneuvering system for earth orbiting satellites with electric thru...

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

LIQUID METAL ION SOURCE

SPACECRAFT THRUSTER VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT UNIT

Synchronous Polyphase Alternating Current Electrostatic Ion Thruste...

SATELLITE INCLUDING CROSSOVER POWER PROCESSING UNITS FOR ELECTRIC T...

ELECTRODELESS PLASMA THRUSTER WITH CLOSE RING-SHAPED GAS DISCHARGE...

METHOD FOR OPTIMISING THE ORBITAL TRANSFER OF AN ELECTRICALLY PROPE...

Embedded Electrospray Thruster

Applied Rotations of Anisotropic Homopolar Magnetic Domains

Plasma Thruster With Birdcage Antenna

SATELLITE PROPELLANT TANK WITH INTEGRATED REGULATION

PROPULSION SYSTEM FOR SPACECRAFT

SATELLITE HAVING ACTIVELY COOLED ELECTRIC THRUSTER

PROPULSION SYSTEM FOR SPACECRAFT

Turbomolecular Air-Scoop for Satellite Air-Breathing Electric Propu...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING FORCES USING ASYMMETRICAL ELECTROS...

NEUTRALIZER FOR AN ION THRUSTER OF A SPACECRAFT

NANOSTRUCTURED SURFACE PLASMONIC RESONANCE/PHOTOTHERMAL ABSORBING...

ION BOOSTER FOR THRUST GENERATION

Spacecraft Propulsion Devices and Systems with Microwave Excitation

DEMON quantum mehanical (H/C)/propulsion system

THRUSTER ASSEMBLY

CONTROL VALVE AND PROPULSION DEVICE

ION PROPULSION DEVICE

RADIO-FREQUENCY PLASMA GENERATING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING T...

PROPELLANT INJECTOR SYSTEM FOR PLASMA PRODUCTION DEVICES AND THRUSTERS

ENGINE MODULAR DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION FOR REDUCED COST AND ACCELER...

METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ION THRUSTER, AND ION THRUSTER SYSTEM

MICRO SCALABLE THRUSTERS FOR ADAPTIVE MISSION PROFILES IN SPACE - U...

RECONFIGURABLE POWER PROCESSING UNIT FOR SPACECRAFT OPERATIONS

Rocket Exhaust Driven Amplification (REDA) of VLF Waves in Space