Ad Astra, NASA Agree To Advance Plasma Rocket Development

Vasimr engine.

Credit: Ad Astra
HOUSTON—NASA and the Ad Astra Rocket Co. have entered an $850,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) agreement for continued development of a high frequency radio power source for the company’s Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (Vasimr), a high power plasma propulsion...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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