Ad Astra VX-200 at full power using argon propellant/Doug Messier at Parabolic Arc has posted a video demonstration of the VASIMR-powered lunar tug concept with news of the NASA study. Read the post, HERE.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
NASA studies Ad Astra VASIMR for Lunar Tug
Ad Astra VX-200 at full power using argon propellant/Doug Messier at Parabolic Arc has posted a video demonstration of the VASIMR-powered lunar tug concept with news of the NASA study. Read the post, HERE.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Ad Astra tests world's most powerful ion engine
From David Shiga
New Scientist-Space
"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)."
"Now, the company has run such an engine at full power for the first time. On Wednesday, it ran its VX-200 engine at 201 kilowatts in a vacuum chamber in Houston, passing the 200-kilowatt mark for the first time."
"It's the most powerful plasma rocket in the world right now," says Franklin Chang-Diaz, the former NASA astronaut who heads the company."
New Scientist-Space
"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)."
"Now, the company has run such an engine at full power for the first time. On Wednesday, it ran its VX-200 engine at 201 kilowatts in a vacuum chamber in Houston, passing the 200-kilowatt mark for the first time."
"It's the most powerful plasma rocket in the world right now," says Franklin Chang-Diaz, the former NASA astronaut who heads the company."
Read the story, HERE.
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