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Ad Astra Rocket Company is a company that is dedicated to developing advancing plasma rocket propulsion technologies. The company was founded in 2005, in Webster, Texas, United States.
The company is a spaceflight technology company that is developing the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket technology, or VASIMR. They are also developing an integrated "turn-key" solution of distributed renewable energy systems and specific applications around the world. The VASIMR concept has been in development since 1979, since The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts launched the project. The company was incorporated in 2005, when the concept of VASIMR was privatized from NASA.
Ad Astra Rocket Company also has developed a renewable energy division that is dedicated to furthering a renewable energy infrastructure in Costa Rica and its neighboring regions. The offer wind power, energy storage, and waste to energy conversion solutions. The company's renewable energy division's main objective is to offer sustainable solutions to enhance the development of the energy options.