Space speed

The University of Washington in the USA has received a £500,000 grant from NASA to work on a new propulsion system called Mini-Magnetospheric Plasma Propulsion - M2P2 - which could enable a spacecraft to travel at 290,000km/h or 6.5 million km/day.

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