RECORD BREAKING
Deep Space 1 is two months into its ion engine firing toward the comet Borrelly and recently broke the record for the longest rocket firing in space, set by the SERT-2 ion engine satellite testbed in the early 1970s at 162 days. The Hughes-built engine has now fired for more than 210 days and could...
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