Are you're familiar with the guts of how the rocket works?

Somewhat.

Okay.

Well we start, it's really a two-stage system.

So we start with just neutral gas.

We like to use argon here.

It's a good match for our magnets.

It also gives us very good

specific impulse about 5,000 seconds and that's that's a good it's good and

efficient to use and the magnetic fields are not too to constrain but

gas comes into this first section,

and we have superconducting magnets around the whole system.

The system then is broken into two parts.

One's a plasma source, so the gas gets turned into plasma charged so

that it can respond to the magnetic field and then we choke it through the

second this middle section so that gas can't really escape past this So in this region it's completely plasma and here it's

relatively cool 10,000 degrees is relatively. By plasma standards that's

pretty cool. Your fluorescent lights are not quite that warm, but they're warmer than you think in the plasma itself.

But it's a very diffuse. This is not like air densities. It's below, well below that for for density but the temperature is very high but

in the second section we go up to millions of degrees and here you really do not

want plasma touching any material surfaces it really is a magnetic bottle.

Like a fusion reactor.

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