Ad Astra Rocket Company and NASA Johnson Space Center have signed a Support Agreement to collaborate on aspects of safety, reliability and mission assurance related to the development of VASIMR ...

Ad Astra Rocket Company and NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) have signed a Support Agreement to collaborate on research, analysis and development tasks on space-based cryogenic magnet operations and ...

Ad Astra Rocket Company (Ad Astra) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have signed two separate contracts to continue the maturation of the VASIMR® rocket technology. The ...

Nasa has selected a variety of companies to work on projects to create advanced space technologies, including faster methods of propulsion. Other projects to be worked on include improved habitats for ...

Credit: Artist's concept of Vasimr spacecraft: WP:NFCC#4 HOUSTON—Ad Astra Rocket Co. reports achieving a 10-hr. milestone of accumulated firings of its VX-200SS prototype Variable Specific Impulse ...

Selected advanced electric propulsion projects will develop propulsion technology systems in the 50- to 300-kilowatt range to meet the needs of a variety of deep space mission concepts.

Scientists are making progress on an advanced space propulsion system aimed at a variety of uses, including reboosting space stations, cleaning up space junk and powering superfast journeys that could ...

HOUSTON—Franklin Chang-Díaz bounds up a handful of stairs and peers through a porthole cut into the side of a silver, tanker-truck-sized vacuum chamber. Inside, a blueish-purple light shines, ...

Future Mars outposts or colonies may seem more distantthan ever with NASA?s exploration plans in flux, but the rocket technology thatcould someday propel a human mission to the red planet in as little ...