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  1. I am guessing it is a high speed low torque engine or the thrust involved
    during this test would rip your facilities to shreds. correct? I am
    guessing you need a hydrogen/oxygen rocket system to thrust accelerate it
    and then start up this thing. like shifting gears in an automobile.

  2. Look at this guys.. THIS is the way of the future! See you near Saturn one
    day! 😄

  3. Now all you need is an electrical power source that can deliver 200kW+ for
    months in space?

  4. Looks exactly like the engine that powered the Imperial star destroyers.
    That’s so fucking cool. 

  5. I think I read that they were supposed to test this on the international
    space station this year. Anyone know if they have yet?

  6. @GangsterHutterite This is not made for use in an atmosphere. It is to be
    used in space. If it could work in an atmosphere(I do not know if it can)
    it would use far to much power.

  7. @Heds123 It’s hard to compare the two. VASIMR won’t get you off the ground,
    because it has low thrust. But it’s very fuel efficient such that the total
    acceleration you can get out of it per unit mass of fuel is far greater
    than conventional rockets.

  8. You would be surprised, this is really good tech that is in the works.
    Conventional tech would be used to get the rocket up there, however once
    this is in space it will constantly increase velocity

  9. Wow, thx for the explanation. If u talk about fusion can antimatter play
    some role in this, maybe as a fuel? Still even we reach speed of light we
    need more than that to travel to galaxies. I think something like
    hyperspace jump into time travel faster than light. I value your comments
    its very cool to know about things like that!

VASIMR at Full Power

This video shows the startup of the VASIMR 1st stage over 5 seconds, the increasing power of the second stage over 3 seconds, a plateau of full power operati…
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