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A NASA ion engine while under test at the Glenn Research Center. It can propel spacecrafts to speeds of up to 320,000 km per hour (i.ibb.co)
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[–] 12 points 2 years ago

I think you got the decimal wrong there. It should be 198,838 Miles per hour.

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