Electric (plasma) propulsion devices have been used for applications such as station-keeping and orbit transfer, in place of chemical rockets, because they provide a higher specific impulse. Detailed ...

Plasma physics is the study of charged particles and fluids interacting with self-consistent electric and magnetic fields ... magnetic reconnection in high-energy-density astrophysical plasmas with ...

and then using electric fields to accelerate the resulting ions. The ions, now forming a high-speed plasma beam, push the ...