NASA's ProSEDS set to demonstrate propellantless in-space propulsion

Can a satellite be de-orbited using nothing more than a long metallic wire roughly the thickness of a piece of dental floss? After over a year of schedule slips, NASA hopes to finally answer this question when it launches the Propulsive Small Expendable Deployer System (ProSEDS) experiment as a...

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