(This sounds like some recovered engineering to me!!!)

NASA's new plasma tech enables larger payloads to be delivered faster


NASA's Technology Transfer Program is currently granting licenses for a groundbreaking propulsion technology that employs electromagnets to manipulate the plasma flow around aircraft and spacecraft during hypersonic travel.

The guidance, navigation, and control of aircraft technology, based on what is known as magnetohydrodynamics, or MHD, offers a significant advancement in aerospace technology, according to the space agency.

This breakthrough enables the delivery of larger payloads at accelerated speeds. Specifically, it facilitates the entry of more substantial and heavier spacecraft into planetary atmospheres, including Earth, operating seamlessly at higher velocities.

NASA is now inviting interested parties an opportunity to obtain "license rights to commercialize, manufacture and market" the technology and it says that license rights are "issued on an exclusive or non-exclusive basis and may include specific fields of use," said a notice from the agency posted on the government contracting portal SAM.gov.

Electrode-based


NASA's MHD patch technology represents a leap forward in aerospace innovation. Developed by experts at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia, this cutting-edge system comprises two strategically positioned electrodes on the Thermal Protection System (TPS) of aircraft or spacecraft, accompanied by an electromagnetic coil beneath the electrodes, projecting a magnetic field outward.

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