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An interesting description of Dawn's ion engine and its pros and cons: http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/journal_12_06.asp#ips http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/j
by grownseed 12y ago
An interesting description of Dawn's ion engine and its pros and cons: http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/journal_12_06.asp#ips http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/journal_12_06.asp#ips (Marc Rayman, Chief Engineer, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, 2006).
- everyone 12y ago"The force of the ion thruster on the spacecraft is comparable to the weight of a single sheet of paper." That is magnificent.