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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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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEXT_(ion_thruster)

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[–] Blade9732@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

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