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jsc2025e076913 (September 25, 2025) -- This image shows the ENPULSION thruster during a ground test, where blue...
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California work to integrate Hall thrusters into the...
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California prepare to integrate four Hall thrusters...
NASA's New Millennium Deep Space 1 spacecraft approaching the comet 19P/Borrelly. With its primary mission to serve...
NASA's Psyche spacecraft is photographed in July 2021 during the mission's assembly, test, and launch operations...
Engineer Paul Reader and his colleagues take environmental measurements during testing of a 20-inch diameter ion...
Researchers at the Lewis Research Center had been studying different methods of electric rocket propulsion since the...
The photo on the left captures an operating electric Hall thruster identical to those that will propel NASA's Psyche...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Deep Space 1 is lifted from its work platform, giving a closer view of the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Deep Space 1 rests on its work platform after being fitted with thermal insulation....
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Deep Space 1 is lifted from its work platform, giving a closeup view of the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- KSC workers give a final check to Deep Space 1 before starting a spin test on the...
Workers at this clean room facility, Cape Canaveral Air Station, prepare to lift the protective can that covered...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- KSC workers lower the "can" over Deep Space 1. The can will protect the spacecraft...
Workers at this clean room facility, Cape Canaveral Air Station, maneuver the protective can that covered Deep Space...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- KSC workers prepare Deep Space 1 for a spin test on the E6R Spin Balance Machine at...
As presented by Gerhard Heller of Marshall Space Flight Center's Research Projects Division in 1961, this chart...
Technicians prepare the Space Electric Research Test (SERT-I) payload for a test in Tank Number 5 of the Electric...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- A Boeing Delta II rocket is raised from its transporter in order to be lifted into the...
The Delta II Heavy carrying the Dawn spacecraft is revealed at Launch Pad 17B as the launch tower rolls away. The...
The Delta II Heavy rocket roars skyward carrying the Dawn spacecraft. Dawn will be the first to orbit two planetary...
NASA Launch Manager Omar Baez summarizes the successful launch of the Dawn spacecraft aboard a Delta II Heavy...
With launch now behind it, Dawn separates from the Delta II Heavy launch vehicle and heads toward the asteroid belt....
Dawn Project Manager Keyur Patel narrates an animation of Dawn's upcoming mission in space. The spacecraft will be...