VASIMR VX-200SS
Plasma rocket engine heated by radio waves
Texas company led by former NASA astronaut Franklin Chang Diaz that has spent two decades building VASIMR, a high-power plasma rocket aimed at moving cargo and crews through deep space on far less propellant. (1 product in the atlas)
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Deep space · Beyond Mars
Testing
Milestones
- Dec 2024 Ad Astra and Space Nuclear Power Corporation announced a strategic alliance to pair VASIMR with space fission reactors for high-power nuclear electric propulsion. Company statement1
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