Mars is far away. For a manned spaceship to get there now under current rocket power, it would take about a year. But riding a plasma rocket will shorten the trip considerably — to just 39 days.
While Hacketts Cove, Nova Scotia is not the hotbed of aerospace technology, a company there is building a radio frequency sensor unit that will heat argon gas enough to turn it to plasma. Nautel is building a plasma generator the size of a golf bag that will be attached to the next generation of high-powered rockets.
NASA will likely test a plasma-powered rocket to move the International Space Station in 2013 before it starts sending missions to Mars.
Here is the link:
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-10/123000-mph-plasma-engine-could-finally-take-astronauts-mars
Argon gas?
It’s hydrogen that they will be using.
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