In 1983, MIT researchers used their magnetic mirror plasma device to conduct the first Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) propulsion experiment. A decade and a half later ...

U.S. President Barack Obama, Kennedy Space Center, April 15, 2010 The Obama administration claims that it is developing a new breakthrough propulsion system, known as VASIMR, which uniquely will ...

The testing vacuum chamber, containing the 50kW VASIMR. Late in 2014, a radically different type of rocket propulsion is set to show up on the International Space station for a period of ...

This has long been the promise of Chang-Díaz’s plasma-based VASIMR rocket engine. From a theoretical physics standpoint, the rocket has always seemed a reasonable proposition: generate a plasma ...

It is in funded development. A 200 KW version of the Vasimr engine is being ground tested in 2008 and a flight version is being readied for 2010. Seven of the nuclear generators would provide 200 MW ...

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Commercializing the VASIMR electric propulsion engine is the flagship project of Ad Astra, which has been in business for nine years and has invested $30 million to date to mature the concept.

300,000 m/s is possible with hydrogen. The 39 day mission to Mars using VASIMR propulsion takes 200 Megawatts total input power driving 4-to-8 yet to be designed VASIMR engines that will sink 25-to-50 ...

This article is intended to correct significant inaccuracies and misconceptions about the VASIMR® engine technology and its development, including several that have recently appeared in the ...

But to realize that potential, Houston-based Ad Astra Rocket Company must first demonstrate that its plasma rocket, VASIMR, can fire continuously for a long period of time. The three-year ...

Since 2005, the Ad Astra Rocket Company of Webster, Texas, has been working to perfect a type of engine it calls VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket). It uses radio waves to ...

One with a long track record is the Ad Astra Rocket Company, which has been developing its Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) system for decades. However, this type of ...