{"id":194904,"date":"2008-08-10T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/10\/nasa-to-test-vasimr-on-space-station\/"},"modified":"2008-08-10T06:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T11:25:00","slug":"nasa-to-test-vasimr-on-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/10\/nasa-to-test-vasimr-on-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA to Test Vasimr On Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA will test the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) plasma engine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/08\/05\/226329\/nasa-to-test-plasma-engine-on-space-station.html\">on their space station<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It promises something in excess of 40 times the specific impulse (fuel efficiency) of chemical rockets, and its thrust is a lot higher than alternate technologies, something on the order of about 10N (around 2 lbs) as opposed to the millinewton thrust levels of ion engines.<\/p>\n<p>It should be interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Previous posts <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=vasimr\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA will test the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) plasma engine on their space station It promises something in excess of 40 times the specific impulse (fuel efficiency) of chemical rockets, and its thrust is a lot higher than alternate technologies, something on the order of about 10N (around 2 lbs) as opposed to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1036,1037,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nasa","category-space","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194904"}],"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=194904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}