Transforming Space Travel
A game changer
Ad Astra Rocket Company (AARC) is a leading spaceflight technology company dedicated to the development of advanced plasma rocket propulsion. The company is developing the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR®) engine. The VASIMR® engine’s versatility, efficiency, and power, will help revolutionize the space economy with easy and affordable in-space transportation.
Through its Costa Rica subsidiary, Ad Astra is also developing integrated “turn-key” clean energy solutions based on green-hydrogen energy storage. To learn more please visit the Ad Astra Costa Rica website…
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Crossing the Space Frontier
Since the 1970s, starting at MIT and then for 25 years at NASA, astronaut Franklin Chang Díaz and his team of scientists have worked to develop a faster propulsion technology for space travel. The result is the VASIMR® engine, a plasma rocket with 10 times the performance of a chemical rocket, using 1/10th of the fuel. Watch Crossing the Space Frontier to learn more about this revolutionary engine.
100 KW firing VX-200SS
VX-200SS™ VASIMR® prototype firing at a power level of 100 kW with ARGON as propellant. These tests are conducted in Ad Astra’s 150 m3 Texas vacuum chamber as part of the NASA NextSTEP VASIMR® partnership, bringing the engine to a technology readiness level (TRL) of 5, a level just prior to space flight readiness. Temperatures of the plasma exhaust can reach up to 4 million degrees Celsius, a temperature comparable to the interior of the sun.
Changing the Paradigm of in-space Transportation
Multiple Applications
A commercially sustainable in-space cargo delivery service will be required to support a robust space economy in a near future.
Ad Astra’s Ocelot ™ VASIMR® power and propulsion module can provide this re-boost services to large orbiting stations at a fraction of the cost …
Asteroids pose both a threat and an opportunity for humankind. The VASIMR® engine has the ability to contribute to technology engineered to …
Space debris is a serious issue, from 1957 to 2016 the number of objects orbiting the globe went from 2 to 40,000, and that is just the number that we can …
Mars would be the next big milestone to accomplish. Many are asking if it will take another 50 years before we make that next giant leap for humankind …
Powered by high-power VASIMR® engine, Ad Astra’s deep space catapult can deliver large (>2Mt) scientific payloads to points in deep space …
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