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Plasma propulsion could become effective and useful for higher altitude aviation...
"We want to develop a system that can operate above an altitude of 30 kilometers where standard jet engines cannot go," he says. These could even take passengers to the edge of the atmosphere and beyond.
The challenge was to develop an air-breathing plasma propulsion engine that could be used for take-off as well as high-altitude flying.
