HackJam – 19th January 2016
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David Lanzendörfer gave a talk about a new type of propulsion system that will hopefully one day revolutionize space travel called: “magnetoplasmadynamic thruster (MPD)“ which he has been developing for about 7 years. Former astronaut Chang Diaz is an early pioneer and has been developing MPD rockets since 1977 such as the VaSIMR which is …