An unmanned cargo capability based on VASIMR propulsion offers significant cost savings to NASA and commercial lunar exploration programs. VASIMR can deliver twice as much payload to the lunar surface, compared to chemical propulsion, if used as a ‘tug boat’ between Low Earth Orbit and Low Lunar Orbit. At the present, chemical propulsion always has to be used to climb out of Earth’s atmosphere and into a Low Earth Orbit, in addition to the final lunar landing descent. Beyond VX-200 (VASIMR Experimental, 200 kw) and VF-200 (VASIMR Flight, 200 kw) demonstrations, the Ad Astra Rocket Company plans to fill a developing high power transportation niche near Earth for orbit maintenance of large space structures for commerce and tourism and satellite repositioning, retrieval and re supply. Longer term applications for which VASIMR may be ideally suited include: the delivery of large payloads to the lunar surface, recovery of space resources from asteroids and comets and propelling cargo and human missions to Mars and beyond. More at: www.adastrarocket.com en.wikipedia.org www.plasmaben.com/VASIMR
Lunar Tug Using Plasma Rocket
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The VASMR will be the first project on the participating Costa Rica with name and titles. Thanks to the company Ad Astra Rocket Company in the same country. It is the pioneer in plasma thrusters and the only one that is developing. With headquarters in Liberia, Costa Rica, and Texas, U.S..
Franklin Chang-Diaz, scientists, engineers and exastronauta seven flights of the company’s founder and leader of the investigation.
nice video and concept
I want to fly there..
Sorry to change the subject but this is space-related.
To see a partial summary of the clear evidence that the Apollo moon missions were faked, google “The Naked Scientists”. In the “New Theories” section of the forum there’s a thread entitled “Did We Land on the Moon?”. The summary is on page 15. It’s the 7th one from the top.
Once people have seen the hoax evidence, there’s nothing anyone can do to make them believe we went to the moon.
Who knows what else they’ve faked.
who’s talking about space? the comment was liftoff being 1G…. That was the joke.
there is no air in outer space
you are wrong, sir. in space, you would only feel “gravity” when in motion. the acceleration of the space craft would feel to an occupant to be the same as the force of gravity, but it is not, it is the space craft’s acceleration. 1 G of acceleration would, over time, propel a craft to a very great speed indeed.
what you say is common knowledge been known for years and years, so what’s new? besides anal people on you tube
ok i understand what you are saying. and I agree that the system is the flaw and the main problem is that the general public does not care about science. most people i have met take the stance of “ill just leave that to someone else”. People don’t think that it concerns them, yet they still expect things to be produced for them and breakthroughs to be made that make their lives better. they just don’t care beyond that. they don’t actively seek out what is going on in the sci/tech world.
i did that i sent it in to science review your words are great and we think alike but we wouldnt have to worry about stealing ideas and about getting them in use if the public would wake up
more bla bla of an idiot dont you have anything new or wise, same crap heard ten years ago .
bla bla bla all cause you said , this is been around for ten years your just learning that , ass head
aside from the fact you have nothing of value to add to society please refrane from speaking and go to the kid section and stop annoying the wise ones
if that was in response to me, i was not saying that nobody would steal the idea. the telephone was a stolen idea. it happens, but if that stops the inventor, then they weren’t worried about advancing technology. they were worried about advancing their pocket book. nothing wrong with that, just that the OP was trying to sound like he was selflessly trying to help humankind but being turned away by the science community when that was not the case.
Yeah. I agree with you on that. The only way we are ever going to get anywhere in space exploration is private enterprise. as far as generating a magnetic field; it would work but i would imagine it takes a massive amount of energy to sustain. our energy harvesting technology would have to improve. another thing i read was about it being possible to dissipate the entire belt using conductive tethers. like punching a hole in the bottom of a bucket. i think they said it would take 2 years to do.
I was reading some years ago about nice ideas to shield from charged particles. There was something about charging the spaceship or using a magnetic field to deflect the particles. Hopefully with the development of private space companies will become cheaper to send those equipment in orbit.
aside from the fact you made absolutely no sense, it is not my job or duty to add to your intelligence. and since this comment system allows me to reply to your comment then it makes perfect sense to “blab”. so i commented on the fact that what you said made no sense. it still makes no sense. and i saw nowhere that you tried to pass on information. you in fact specifically said you couldn’t because peer review was worthless. peer review is there for a reason and i think you found it.
that doesnt mean anything, do you think i dont know that you seem to lack some kind of wisdom or something trying to get something from me, think i dont know what im talking about and some body like you wouldnt start blabbing. i just trying to pass information on to the world that what went on in the past is going on now you didnt once make a talk about that again your a waste of time for me. your not adding to my intellgence
again, you are on the right track. the belts are a byproduct of cosmic rays being repelled mostly by the earth’s magnetic field and upper atmosphere. the space station is in such a low orbit that it is in much less danger of geomagnetic storms affecting it, though the possibility exists during solar flares. basically the further you get from earth, the less protection you have. and with it costing hundreds of thousands of dollars per pound to send something to space, shielding is not an option.
just because I speak and reply properly doesn’t mean I’m “trying” to sound smart. but to try and clear it up, I’m saying that the chances of you being the person who has the knowledge to break the light speed barrier, yet are sitting around commenting on youtube videos is very unlikely. also, if you are really do have the answers, and you are afraid the world will never know then you would come out with it regardless of the chance it could be stolen.
You’re right. Anyway for the common people we can say that the belts are a good shield from the solar radiations that sometimes is much worst that the belts themselves. Also the ISS is well protected by the belts.
Yes thats true , listen to talk radio 640 am coast to coast talk about this all the time. also many ideas have been stolen like nikola tesla, it shame there are so many ignorant people in america. I see thumb down by one.. good luck!
Van Halen is a famous guitarist, but i assume you mean the Van Allen belts. they are indeed radiation belts. they are filled with charged protons (inner belt) and electrons (outer belt) and any craft that passes through them is subject to the radiation contained therein. the belts are very hazardous to small electronics and moderately dangerous to human beings. you are almost on the right path with the static discharge, but there is more than just static in those belts.
i almost dont knw what your talking about your trying to sound smart butt its not coming across, my ideas yes there are multiple ideas butt there rare to be with in one day or week that happend with anitbiotices to one day off. you didnt mention what idea i wqs talking about . like the nuclear bomb was made here before anybody else years before and it was the most top secret ever in america
i hardly beleive that someone with the answer to FTL travel is going to sit and make a poorly constructed complaint about it on a youtube video. however, lets say you do have the answers If you were really worried about them being lost forever, would you really worry about your ideas being stolen. furthermore, history has proven that ideas can be independently be had by multiple people without each knowing the other. the jet engine was invented at near the same time by two different people.