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NASA’s Sci-Fi Thrusters: Psyche’s Electric Blue Journey to the Asteroid Belt


NASA's Psyche spacecraft is on course to explore an asteroid by 2029, using innovative solar-powered electric thrusters for deep space travel. It is already beyond the distance of Mars and is using ion propulsion to accelerate toward a metal-rich asteroid, where it will orbit and collect science dat

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