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→‎LISA Pathfinder: LISA Pathfinder was a test for LISA (rather than LISA Pathfinder itself). With LISA funding essentially in the bag, it is appropriate to drop the the qualifier "possible".
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==== LISA Pathfinder ====
[[LISA Pathfinder]] is an [[ESA]] spacecraft launched in 2015. It does not use ion thrusters as its primary propulsion system, but uses both [[colloid thruster]]s and [[FEEP]] for precise [[attitude control]] – the low thrusts of these propulsion devices make it possible to move the spacecraft incremental distances accurately. It is a test for the possible LISA Pathfinder mission. The mission ended on 30 December 2017.
 
==== BepiColombo ====