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VASIMR® Operating Principles

VX-200 Plasma at Full Power 1st Stage and Full Magnetic Field

Official NASA Photo of Franklin Chang Díaz	ASPL Director Franklin Chang Díaz, 2005	VASIMR® System
VX-200 Plasma at Full Power Both Stages	VX-200 Integration	VX-200 Roll in the Chamber
VX-200 Schematic View	Lunar Tug with 200 kW Solar Powered VASIMR®	Human Mission to Mars with 10 MW NEP-VASIMR®
Franklin Chang Diaz - VASIMR® inventor	VX-200 inside the vacuum chamber	VX-200 inside the vacuum chamber
Aurora: 200 kW VASIMR® demo on ISS	Bekuo: Human Mission to Mars with 200 MW NEP	Bekuo: Human Mission to Mars with 200 MW NEP
Bekuo: Human Mission to Mars with 200 MW NEP	Bekuo: Human Mission to Mars with 200 MW NEP	Orbital Transfer Vehicle with 200 kW Solar Powered VASIMR®
VX-200 Operations: Oct 2009	VX-200 Operations: Nov 2010	Franklin R. Chang-Diaz, STS-111 mission specialist, EVA, 9 June 2002
Franklin R. Chang-Diaz, during STS-111 EVA.	VASIMR® OTV for debris removal	VASIMR® OTV for NEA retreival
VASIMR® OTV for asteroid deflection	VASIMR® engine for ISS drag compensation	Bekuo: Interplanetary Human VASIMR-NEP mission