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NASA’s Psyche spacecraft hits a speed bump on the way to a metal asteroid

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NASA 's Psyche spacecraft has stopped firing its engines after detecting a problem in its propulsion system.

The spacecraft detected the drop in pressure April 1 inside the line that feeds xenon fuel to the spacecraft's plasma thrusters.

Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California are looking into the problem.

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