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Dawn and Ceres Deliver!

01/27/2015 5:04 PM

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Re: Dawn and Ceres deliver!

01/27/2015 5:39 PM

I see they turned all the lights on in their Capital City.

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01/27/2015 5:43 PM

Inspected by No. 6.

What amazes me is that this is the first time a deep space probe actively changed where they were exploring. Real ion propulsion.

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01/29/2015 8:56 AM

Thanks for the second link. Very informative.

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Re: Dawn and Ceres deliver!

01/31/2015 1:09 PM

Talking about somebody got there first, wow!

I really like this ion propulsion thing, but they will need nuclear power to really kick that into high gear and maybe get a couple thousand times more thrust out of it. At least I think I would like to see that happen.

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