Advanced plasma rocket tested in Costa Rica
Houston-based Ad Astra Rocket Company, which grew out of in-house research into Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) technology conducted at Johnson Space Center by seven-time shuttle astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz, expects to begin operating a 200-kilowatt "flight-like" VASIMR...
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