Exerting less force than does a single sheet of paper resting in your hand, Deep Space 1's ion propulsion system will slowly, yet continuously accelerate the spacecraft well beyond speeds attainable by conventional chemical propulsion.
Deep Space 1 (fact sheet)
01.08.1998
Preprint
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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