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NASA tests new, super powerful engine
NASA just nudged its Mars ambitions forward with a lab test of a new ion engine that vastly outmuscles anything it's flown before. The lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster hit 120 kilowatts ...
A new ion engine has been tested in a lab, proving itself to be 25 times more powerful than NASA's current state-of-the-art one. This advanced technology could one day assist humans in reaching Mars.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently reached a significant achievement in space travel technology. They successfully tested a lithium-fed magneto.
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