key highlights "we have NAME_1 here from ad astra and to talk to us about the vesemir plasma propulsion engine so thank you very much for coming I've been asked to stall just a little bit while we get organized but I'm NAME_2 and I'm a vice president for technology development at ad astra rocket company I spent a lot of years working just right up the creek here actually had a paddle butt right up here by 12 until we all got moved to the x10 site which I guess is now called the Oak Ridge well Oak Ridge National Laboratory but I started working with the ad astra group while they were still part of nasa under interagency agreements between Oak Ridge National Laboratory and in NASA and so we did a lot of work on the plasma source to help get that started way back in the late 1990s and it tied in with some plasma work that's done for the fusion business for how these waves actually get propagated into the system and how you design the system to accept the waves that you can afford to to produce so that also has some application here on the ground for plasma sources for anything you need a plasma source for so there's some people that extend still working on some of the stuff that that we originally worked on for VADs and their plasma sources but anyway in 2006 I decided to go ahead and join the group down in Houston so they had money from private funding we raised about thirty million dollars over I say we NAME_3 raised about thirty million dollars which helped us build a large vacuum chamber which we really didn't have access to before that and we were able to purchase a superconducting magnet it is a low temperature of superconducting magnum but that makes it actually the new technologies we couldn't afford in a time and that this would have been in probably 2008 and so we built that the cheaper version but it's been great having a superconducting magnet is so much better than deal with with with regular copper maintenance that was almost impossible to deal with the magnets themselves but I guess I'll go ahead and get started it looks like we have a pretty good sized group here so our flagship project really is the is the NAME_4 engine that we're trying to develop that's variable specific impulse magneto plasma rocket that goes back a long time actually in in terms of its of its idea the how you actually implement the idea has really come about because of RF radio frequency wave generation broadcast radio basically tied in to magnetized plasmas so we're the most advanced high-power elect Provide exactly two different responses that are separated with 6 asterisk symbols: ******.
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