HD: VASIMR Booster Stage Firing For 5 Seconds

[tlages]

The VASIMR rocket could potentially help us explore space, with manned missions. With a delta V over 100km/s, we could get to Pluto in about 780 days, comparable to the NEW HORIZONS 10 years

[johnroach1]

This open system is obsolete see approachconcepts com

[coltleader]

Um... was that the rocket or did they get bored and decided to watch a movie on a projector?

[coastwalker]

Plasma is fun. I used to watch the beam from a Varian 160-10 ion beam implanter from the viewing port round back at a semiconductor fab on nightshift and when it hit the interior of the beam line unintentionally there would be a pretty shower of molten iron. A tech question, does your plasma jet charge up the generating engine to a high voltage?

[niiidar]

Wow, my love for plasma rockets ar just growing... They are so beatiful!

Keep doing what you do, you are pioneers!