Long Firing of Ion Engine
Deep Space 1's xenon ion rocket is well into a 13-day continuous firing set to end Dec. 7, passing the 200-hr. benchmark required to declare the technology validation mission a success and leaving engineers pleased with the initial data. The test run has been very ``clean,'' only producing 17 `...
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