In 2014, Dmytro Rafalskyi and Ane Aanesland from the
Laboratory of Plasma Physics, École Polytechnique, France demonstrated a new
electric propulsion concept.
In addition to Fomalont and Romney, they are: Hisashi Hirabayashi, of the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (ISAS / JAXA), Haruto Hirosawa (ISAS / JAXA), Peter Dewdney of Canada's Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Leonid Gurvits of the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE, The Netherlands), Makoto Inoue of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), David Jauncey of the Australia Telescope National Facility, Noriyuki Kawaguchi (NAOJ), Hideyuki Kobayashi (NAOJ), Kazuo Miyoshi (Mitsubishi
Electric Corporation, Japan), Yasuhiro Murata (ISAS / JAXA), Takeshi Orii (NEC, Japan) Robert Preston of NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and Joel Smith (JPL).