UK start-up Magdrive will launch a metal-fuelled plasma thruster into space for its first test.

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Among thruster installations, three Lips steerable thrusters with 3.2-m diameter FP propellers each driven by a 3,500-kW electric motor — were fitted to an FPSO delivered earlier this year to ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has made its final close approach to the sun, reaching 3.86 million miles as it seeks to understand the solar corona and space weather.