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Spare Ion Engine Being Checked
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An ion thruster is removed from a vacuum chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., its job done following…
Jul 30, 2003
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Deep Space 1 Using its Ion Engine (Artist’s Concept)
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NASA's New Millennium Deep Space 1 spacecraft approaching the comet 19P/Borrelly.
Jul 2, 2003
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Deep Space 1’s Ion Engine
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This image of a xenon ion engine, photographed through a port of the vacuum chamber where it was being tested…
Dec 21, 2002
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Deep Space 1’s Ion Engine
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Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Deep Space 1 is lifted from its work platform, giving a closeup view of the experimental…
Dec 21, 2002
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