Press Releases

José A. Zaglul is elected to the Ad Astra Board of Directors, 4/8/13

Ad Astra’s Christopher Olsen presents groundbreaking VASIMR result in PhD thesis milestone, 2/2/13

VASIMR prototype increases high-power performance, demonstrates efficient constant power throttling, 7/27/12

AARC, Costa Rica signs agreements for $1.4M for research and development of hydrogen technologies, 7/24/12

AARC and NASA JSC sign agreement on VASIMR payload safety and reliability support, 5/31/12

AARC Costa Rica scientists participate in new zero-gravity flight, 5/16/12

Ad Astra unveils mock-up of space platform 'Aurora', 10/12/11

AARC Costa Rica selects two scientists for Microgravity Flight, 5/26/11

Ad Astra and NASA sign Support Agreement on VASIMR technology, 3/8/11

VASIMR VX-200 Meets Full Power Efficiency Milestone, 11/23/10

AARC and MEI Technologies, Inc. form Strategic Alliance, 1/14/10

VX-200 reaches 200 kW, 9/30/09

VX-200 demonstrates superconducting first stage at full power, 7/2/09

VX-200 superconducting magnet delivered, accepted, 03/06/09

NASA and AARC sign Agreement for VASIMR flight test, 12/12/08

VX-200 first stage achieves full power, 10/24/08

AARC - CORAAL agreement, 05/09/08

ATK - AARC Alliance, 03/26/08

Status and Schedule, 03/04/08

Agreement with NASA signed, 12/10/07

Last plasma at NASA, 10/2/07

First commercial contract, 8/21/07

Achieving record plasma, 6/12/07

Helicon milestone in CR, 6/12/07

2006 milestones & 2007 goals, 1/30/07