Artist's concept of Psyche.
Credit: NASA
HOUSTON—NASA says it has remedied a drop in the pressure of the electric propulsion system fuel line aboard the Psyche spacecraft that is en route to a large, metal-rich main belt asteroid of the same name. The solution was a switch to the backup fuel line to four thrusters that are solar powered to...
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