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An ion thruster is removed from a vacuum chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The...
Psyche engineers adapted to COVID-19 social distancing and masking requirements while testing the Hall thrusters...
New staff member Paul Margosian inspects a cluster of ion engines in the Electric Propulsion Laboratory’s 25-foot...
Exposed interior of NASA Dawn spacecraft showing ion propulsion system xenon feed system.
This illustration shows the core structure with ion propulsion system installed aboard NASA Dawn spacecraft.
This image of a xenon ion engine, photographed through a port of the vacuum chamber where it was being tested at...
An ion thruster is removed from a vacuum chamber at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., its job done...
This artist concept shows NASA Dawn spacecraft arriving at the dwarf planet Ceres. Dawn travels through space using...
ION PROPULSION LABORATORIES - HYDROFORMING RIG
ION PROPULSION LABORATORIES - CLEAN ROOM
EXPRESS INTEGRATED TEST ION PROPULSION SYSTEM
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In Astrotech's Hazardous Processing Facility, technicians check data during the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In Astrotech's Hazardous Processing Facility, technicians check data during the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Astrotech's Hazardous Processing Facility, a technician checks the connections for...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Astrotech's Hazardous Processing Facility, technicians look at the connections for...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Astrotech's Hazardous Processing Facility, technicians are loading the Dawn...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In Astrotech's Hazardous Processing Facility, a technician monitors the loading of...
EXPRESS PPU POWER PROPULSION UNIT 160 CIRCUIT BOARDS FOR POWER UNIT OF ION THRUSTER
NEXT-C Dart Propulsion explainer package (played in DART Live Launch broadcast)
This image of a xenon ion engine prototype, photographed through a port of the vacuum chamber where it was being...
Kennedy Space Center, Florida. - Deep Space 1 is lifted from its work platform, giving a closeup view of the...
This artist's rendering shows NASA's Dawn spacecraft maneuvering above Ceres with its ion propulsion system. Dawn...
Interior of the 20-foot diameter vacuum tank at the NASA Lewis Research Center’s Electric Propulsion Laboratory....
Harnessing the Sun's energy through Solar Thermal Propulsion will propel vehicles through space by significantly...