Test of most powerful Hall-effect thruster set for February 2000.

HALL-EFFECT TEST: NASA plans to launch its first "Future-X" advanced space transportation fight test on a Russian Proton rocket next February, using the Russian Express A3 satellite as a test platform for the most powerful Hall-effect thruster ever orbited. The five kilowatt solar electric...

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