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 ...

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 ...

“NASA/JSC has a requirement for the acquisition of services to update a magnet fixture with an additional cryocooler for conduction cooling and to eliminate the liquid cyrogen cooling system in ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA is ramping up preparations to install Ad Astra Rocket Co.’s prototype 200-kw variable specific impulse magnetoplasma rocket (Vasimr) engine on the International Space Station’s Z1 truss in 2014.

NASA has awarded a grant of USD10 million to a Texas-based company to develop a revolutionary engine that could send humans to Mars in just 39 days. The Ad Astra Rocket company from Webster will ...

[Houston, TX For immediate release] – Ad Astra Rocket Company and NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) have signed a Support Agreement to collaborate on research, analysis and development tasks on ...