FASTER AND FASTER
NASA's Deep Space 1 picked up more than 100 kilometers per hour from the gentle push of its xenon ion engine over a week's time, once the engine started running. According to spacecraft prime contract Spectrum Astro, to date the electric-propulsion engine has been throttled to a level that generated...
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