JPL testing ion engine for New Millennium comet mission
Researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have logged more than two months of ground-test time on a foot-wide ion drive thruster designed to push NASA's first New Millennium space probe to rendezvous with an asteroid and a comet in 1998. Testing in a JPL vacuum chamber began April 30 and will...
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