VASIMR, short for Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (bless you), could one day transport astronauts throughout our solar system – specifically Mars – much quicker than ever before. How ...
New York, July 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket) Engine ...
Ad Astra rocket is making progress towards a VASIMR rocket The variable specific impulse magnetoplasma rocket (VASIMR) is a hypothetical form of spacecraft propulsion that uses radio waves and ...
Propulsion technologies are the key to exploring the outer solar system, and many organizations have been working on novel ones. One with a long track record is the Ad Astra Rocket Company, which has ...
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The VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket) is using a 2 Tesla superconducting magnet in 2009. The VX-200 superconducting magnet was delivered to Ad Astra’s Houston facility on ...
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 ...
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 ...
NASA/JSC has a requirement for the acquisition of services to update a magnet fixture with an additional cryocooler for conduction cooling and to eliminate the liquid cyrogen cooling system in ...
Credit: Artist's concept of Vasimr spacecraft: WP:NFCC#4 HOUSTON—Ad Astra Rocket Co. reports achieving a 10-hr. milestone of accumulated firings of its VX-200SS prototype Variable Specific Impulse ...
A next-generation plasma rocket being developed by former NASA astronaut Franklin Chang Diaz called the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) has been touted as a way to get ...