After One year at research work scientists of the Institute for Plasmadaynamics with the German Research Center for Aeronautics and Space Flight in Stutt art, Germany, have constructed an arc jet engine The team by Dr. Theo Peters and Dr. Ing.Perter Schoeck has developed a completely new space engine in which the gas is heated up to over in which the gas is halted up to over 1000 degrees Celsius by an electronic and permits escape velocities of about 15 kilometers per second. This new are jet will be the engine of the Satellite "Europe I" built in Germany which shall be launched with the aid of NASA, carried up to orbit by an American missile. Photo Shows Heat in the exhaust of the arc jet engine is measured with special instruments.
Photo measures 8.25 x 6 inches.
Photo is dated 7-3-1963.
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