Ok, the way I'm understanding plasma engines is bascially they energize hydrogen fuel so hot that it ionizes the hydrogen. Then it pases the ionized gases into another chamber that uses radio waves to ...
Houston, TX. Ad Astra Rocket Company’s VASIMR(R) VX-200 rocket prototype reached its highly- coveted 200 kW maximum power milestone at 11:59 am (CST) in tests conducted at the company’s Houston ...
Ad Astra Rocket Company reports two important advances with its VX-200 high power VASIMR(R) engine prototype: 1) a significant increase in its high power performance over previous test data obtained ...
Ad Astra Rocket Company (Ad Astra) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have signed two separate contracts to continue the maturation of the VASIMR® rocket technology. The ...
An insightful interview with none other than the renowned astronaut and inventor, Franklin Chang Diaz. He is best known for his work with the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) ...
New York, July 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket) Engine ...
A plasma rocket engine that may one day get a test on the International Space Station has reached a power milestone in one of the radio-frequency (RF) systems used to heat the electrically charged ...
I did a story about this on Digital Journal when VASIMR first came to public awareness back in 2010. MIT physicist Franklin Chang-Diaz, who’s also a former astronaut, (That’s one heck of a resume in ...