Magnetoplasma drive could make Mars transit take 39 days?
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spaceflightinsider.com&#x2F;conferences&#x2F;vasimr-plasma-engine-earth-mars-39-days&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spaceflightinsider.com&#x2F;conferences&#x2F;vasimr-plasma...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spacenews.com&#x2F;vasimr-hoax&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spacenews.com&#x2F;vasimr-hoax&#x2F;</a><p>&quot;Zubrin wrote in SpaceNews: “To achieve his much-repeated claim that VASIMR could enable a 39-day one-way transit to Mars, Chang Diaz posits a nuclear reactor system with a power of 200,000 kilowatts and a power-to-mass ratio of 1,000 watts per kilogram. In fact, the largest space nuclear reactor ever built, the Soviet[-era] Topaz, had a power of 10 kilowatts and a power-to-mass ratio of 10 watts per kilogram. There is thus no basis whatsoever for believing in the feasibility of Chang Diaz’s fantasy power system.”<p>Note the word used by spacenews: Hoax.