NASA JPL Fires Up 120-Kilowatt Lithium-Fed Magnetoplasmadynamic Thruster, a 25x Power Leap Over the Psyche Engines
On Feb. 24, a JPL-led team ran a lithium-vapor magnetoplasmadynamic thruster at 120 kilowatts inside the CoMeT vacuum chamber, more than 25 times the power of the electric engines on NASA's Psyche spacecraft.
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