The VASIMR® engine is a high-power electric propulsion system under development by Ad Astra. The two contracts address Ad Astra’s two new design innovations to the high-power radio frequency ...

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 ...

Achieving the engine's maximum thrust and efficiency requires an enormous amount of electrical power – over 100 kilowatts, to be exact. The VASIMR VX-200 prototype, for example, consumed 200 ...

VASIMR scales well with larger power outputs—on the order of 100kW or more could significantly increase the rocket's ... They have to keep pushing—like the engines they hope to fly someday.

A new rocket called VASIMR, powered by a million-degree plasma instead of traditional chemicals, could be the answer NASA is looking for—if only its designers could keep the super-hot engine ...

Ad Astra's VX-200SS™ high-power VASIMR ® Prototype SpaceNukes' ground-tested Kilopower Space Reactor Partnership: The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Ad Astra and SpaceNukes outlines ...