Top boffins working at a NASA spinoff company are thrilled to announce that their plasma drive technology – potentially capable of revolutionising space travel beyond the Earth’s atmosphere – has checked out A-OK in ground tests.
According to the Ad Astra Rocket Company, building the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR), the firm’s VX-200 prototype engine has just completed its latest round of trials with flying colours.