Easy On The Ion Comparison
While it may be a romantic notion to compare the Dawn spacecraft’s ion engine to the warp propulsion of Star Trek’s USS Enterprise, the similarity ends at the blue glow. In the fictional world of the NCC-1701-D pictured (AW&ST July 2, p. 57), the glow emanates from sets of coils in the long nacelles...
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