Russia's space program is struggling with sanctions placed on the country as a result of its war with Ukraine, and it could ...

Houston, TX. 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 ...

July 2, 2009 – Ad Astra Rocket Company has successfully demonstrated operation of its VX-200 plasma engine first stage at full power and under superconducting conditions in tests conducted today at ...

A plasma rocket engine that may one day get a test on the International Space Station has reached a power milestone in one of the radio-frequency (RF) systems used to heat the electrically charged ...

A breakthrough pulsed plasma rocket is getting NASA phase 2 innovative concepts funding. It will have 15 times the efficiency of chemical rockets and with high levels of thrust at the level of a ...

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Moscow: In what could come as a giant leap in technology, Russia’s new plasma rocket engine might cut travel time to Mars from existing 7 months to just one or two months.According to reports, the ...

SpaceX owns 98% of global rocket launches, a monopoly with virtually no competition. Only China is competing with Elon Musk at this point in number of launches and, while the country is getting closer ...

At one point, VASIMR actually was supposed to be installed on the ISS for station keeping. It would have significantly reduced the amount of propellant needed to be sent up for that purpose, while at ...