OLD TECHNOLOGY, NEW TASK
Engineers at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Ohio are preparing to test a pulsed plasma thruster (PPT, shown) on the EO-1 Earth science testbed in hopes the old technology will prove useful in an era of small spacecraft that need to be controlled with great precision. First used on satellites in the...
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