Plasma Engine manufacture in Costa Rica

When we see the stars how big they are and how far they are from us, we are amazed at how small we really are. When we think about other planets and the possibility of traveling to them; we are very excited and full of curiosity.



In fact, it is the same curiosity that has led man to make trips to the moon, make great progress at math and science. This curiosity makes us extend the limits of our knowledge to places that previously we could not have conceived as a reality.

For a long time, they have talked about making a trip to Mars. Is it really possible? What do you think? The United States of America has been sponsoring an investigation of unprecedented scale. What are we talking about? The Plasma Engine that is been created in Costa Rica.

How Plasma engine Works?

It works similarly to that of a traditional chemical rocket, although instead of fuel, using the plasma, the fourth state of matter ... In a first phase of the motor, operating at 30 kilowatts, plasma is obtained by heating argon gas with a radio frequency antenna forming an ion soup over 50,000 ° Celsius. Amazing, right?



Mr. Franklin Chang Diaz

Here in Costa Rica we have a well-known astronaut he is known worldwide because of his research in plasma engines.

Mr. Franklin Chang Diaz, an astronaut from Costa Rica, has worked in the design and development of a plasma engine to take us to Mars. This is Fabulous. Don't you think?


Franklin Ramon Chang-Diaz is an astronaut (retired July 2005) and physicist, born April 5, 1950 in San Jose, Costa Rica, U.S. citizen since 1977. He has completed seven space missions between 1986 and 2002.


It was the first Costa Rican astronaut (U.S. citizen) spacecraft descent, not the United States, and one of the men with more space missions and times in history. Shares the record for the number of trips into space aboard the space shuttle, with a total of seven NASA missions.

He is also a member of the Hall of Fame NASA academic career. A graduate of  De La Salle College in San Jose, Costa Rica, in November 1967, and Hartford High School in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1969. Later, he joined the University of Connecticut, where he graduated in 1973 as a Mechanic engineer.


Four years later he obtained his doctorate in nuclear engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His doctoral research was based on fusion technology, and based jet plasma.


It is hoped that this little sun that works with magnetism, and that is being created in Costa Rica will become a multimillion-dollar business after is done. The world is eager to see the results of this project of such great proportions.


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