Magnetic Nozzles

Magnetic Nozzles — Terra Invicta technology. Using shaped magnetic fields as rocket nozzles will unlock a new generation of high-power drives.

About Magnetic Nozzles

Magnetic Nozzles is a Terra Invicta technology in Energy with a research cost of 50,000.

Using shaped magnetic fields as rocket nozzles will unlock a new generation of high-power drives.

A magnetic nozzle serves the same purpose as a solid nozzle, which is to say it ejects a plasma jet into the vacuum of space in order to achieve propulsion. However, it achieves this contactlessly, and thus avoids the inefficiency and system damage inherent to forcing hot, high-pressure plasma along the walls of a solid nozzle. This new form of nozzle operates by using electromagnetic fields to magnetize the electrons within the plasma, confining their expansion while guiding them downstream, where ultimately their internal energy is efficiently converted into directed kinetic energy. All of this has for some time been feasible to a limited degree in the lab, but it is only now, thanks to our remarkable breakthroughs in electromagnetics, that we can now make magnetic nozzles feasible within the confines of a spacecraft. Thanks to their dramatically increased thrust, efficiency, longevity, and low mass, new and far more powerful types of drives and reactors can become a reality.

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