{"id":191449,"date":"2009-08-15T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/15\/vasimr-proceeds-to-higher-power-tests\/"},"modified":"2009-08-15T10:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T15:17:00","slug":"vasimr-proceeds-to-higher-power-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/15\/vasimr-proceeds-to-higher-power-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Vasimr Proceeds to Higher Power Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 410px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img4.imageshack.us\/img4\/9805\/aw08102009609l2760284.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" \/><br \/>30 kw first stage test<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img20.imageshack.us\/img20\/7411\/aw08102009610l2767669.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"400\" \/><br \/>VX -200 Prior to entering Test Chamber<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img15.imageshack.us\/img15\/9381\/aw08102009611l2772684.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"400\" \/><br \/>In vacuum chamber<\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;channel=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-08-10&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/08\/10\/AW_08_10_2009_p63-158205.xml&amp;headline=Advanced+Plasma+Engine+Entering+Full-Power+Test\">Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (Vasimr) is slated to enter higher power testing<\/a>. (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">paid subscription required<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>The first stage, a 30kw system, has been successfully tested, and they are now working on a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> stage, which will boost the power of the unit to around 200 kw.<\/p>\n<p>The performance benefits, the ISP (basically fuel economy) is more than 10 times that of chemical rockets, would be very significant if this can be made to work.<\/p>\n<p>For example, it could take the time for a transit to Mars from 180-200 days to about 40 days.<\/p>\n<p>Prior posts <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=vasimr\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30 kw first stage test VX -200 Prior to entering Test Chamber In vacuum chamber The Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (Vasimr) is slated to enter higher power testing. (paid subscription required) The first stage, a 30kw system, has been successfully tested, and they are now working on a 2nd stage, which will boost the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1128,1037,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-propulsion","category-space","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}