The Tico Times

Franklin Chang’s VASIMR plasma engine readies for key test

The VASIMR spacecraft engine that is the brainchild of Tico physicist Franklin Chang Díaz is one step closer to reality, Chang’s company Ad Astra Rocket Company reported this week. The VASIMR is ...
NextBigFuture

Vasimr engines plus 200 MW of nuclear “batteries” = 39 days to Mars

A proposed portable nuclear reactor (simplified solid core) is the size of a hot tub and will be able to generate 27MW. It is in funded development. A 200 KW version of the Vasimr engine is being ...
SpaceNews

VASIMR® VX-200SS Plasma Rocket Completes Record 88-Hour High Power Endurance Test

Ad Astra Rocket Company’s VASIMR® VX-200SS Plasma Rocket has completed 88 hours of continuous operation at 80 kW at the company’s Texas laboratory near Houston. In doing so, the company establishes a ...
SpaceRef

VASIMR VX-200 Reaches 200 kW Power Milestone (with videos)

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 laboratory. The DC ...
Business Insider

VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket) Engine

New York, July 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket) Engine ...
SpaceNews

VASIMR(R) VX-200 reaches 200 kW power milestone (with videos)

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 ...