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Sustained maneuver has a propulsion problem

Written by  Michael J. Patterson Monday, 15 June 2026 12:00
A gridded ion thruster at NASA’s Glenn Research Center that was used on NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). Credit: NASA

For years, space architecture was treated mostly as a question of placement: where to put a spacecraft, and how reliably it could hold position. That framing is now too narrow. […]

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