NASA
recently provided $10 million in funding to Ad Astra Rocket Company of
Texas for further development of its Variable Specific Impulse
Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR), an electromagnetic thruster capable of
propelling a spaceship to Mars in just thirty-nine days. NASA’s funding was part of the “12 Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnership.” Ad Astra’s rocket can travel ten times quicker than today’s chemical rockets while using one-tenth the quantity of fuel.
The
VASIMR system would cut the trip to Mars by months according to
Franklin Chang Diaz, a former MIT student, NASA astronaut, and now CEO
of Ad Astra.
According to Diaz, “This
is like no other rocket that you may have seen in the past. It is a
plasma rocket. The VASIMR Rocket is not used for launching things; it is
used for things already in orbit. This is called “in-space propulsion.”
VASIMR heats plasma, an electrically charged gas, to extremely high temperatures using radio ...Read more https://www.patriotdirect.org/nasas-create-a-new-engine-which-could-reach-mars-in-39-days/
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