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New method tests magnet-powered braking for safer, more reusable spacecraft reentry

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  • Phys.org · August 30, 2026 15:22
    Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created a new system to test magnetohydrodynamic aerobraking for spacecraft reentering the atmosphere. Their platform generates intense magnetic fields with a powerful electromagnet as a miniature vessel is hit with a shock wave traveling at over…