“[C]ritical to deep space exploration will be the development of breakthrough propulsion systems.” — U.S. President Barack Obama, Kennedy Space Center, April 15, 2010 The Obama administration claims ...
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 ...
Hyperion Power Generation is moving ahead with the preparations for three factories for its roughly 7 ton 27 MWe nuclear reactors. One to two hundred reactors could be built and deployed from ...
That said, the VASIMR rocket, developed by the Ad Astra Rocket Company might just bring human exploration of the red planet within reach. Because when it comes down to it, it’s all about the need for ...
VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket) Engine Market Overview: The variable specific impulse magnetoplasma rocket (VASIMR) is an electrothermal thruster being developed for potential ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
(MENAFN- GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) NEW YORK, United States, Sept. 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zion market Research has published a new research report titled“ VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse ...