Posted by tourdemars to Technology at January 30, 2004 12:00 PM

A trip to Mars could be twice as fast using new accelerating technology, according to Australian researchers. Researchers from the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering at the Australian National University in Canberra have designed a new accelerating device they say could one day power spaceships deep into space. Details of their helicon double layer thruster appear in the 19 January issue of the journal Applied Physics Letters.