{"id":3386,"date":"2013-07-13T15:31:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T15:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3386"},"modified":"2013-07-13T15:31:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T15:31:52","slug":"vasimr-animation-kickstarter-campaign-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3386","title":{"rendered":"VASIMR animation Kickstarter campaign opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adastrarocket.com\/aarc\/\" target=\"_d\">Ad Astra Rocket Company<\/a> has opened a Kickstarter crowdfunding effort to fund a high quality animation of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adastrarocket.com\/aarc\/VASIMR\" target=\"_blank\">VASIMR<\/a> plasma propulsion system: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/821885354\/animating-vasimr-the-future-of-spaceflight\" target=\"_d\">Animating VASIMR\u00ae: The Future of Spaceflight by Ad Astra Rocket Company &#8211; Kickstarter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/821885354\/animating-vasimr-the-future-of-spaceflight\/widget\/video.html\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ad Astra Rocket Company has opened a Kickstarter crowdfunding effort to fund a high quality animation of their VASIMR plasma propulsion system: Animating VASIMR\u00ae: The Future of Spaceflight by Ad Astra Rocket Company &#8211; Kickstarter:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-rockets","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-SC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":391,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=391","url_meta":{"origin":3386,"position":0},"title":"Ad Astra Rocket &#8211; Progress in research of VASIMR magnetic nozzle","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 3, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A reader points me to an Ad Astra Rocket announcement of the results of a PhD research study into the behavior of the magnetic nozzle for the VASIMR electric propulsion system. 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