To provide enough solar power for the ion engine, Deep Space 1 is outfitted with a pair of newfangled solar wings.
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However, ion engines often use heavier elements like xenon as the reaction mass, accelerated to much higher speeds using electric fields.
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It was thought that the ion engine exhaust might interfere with other spacecraft systems, such as radio communications or the science instruments.
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Interplanetary flight would have lasted until April 2021 ( the ion engines were supposed to work two thirds of the time ).
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BepiColombo will use solar electric propulsion ( ion engines ) and then also use similar manoeuvres at the Moon, Venus, and Mercury.
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Collect the Hawking radiation as an energy supply to stabilize the orbit of the ring, say with ion engines for orbital station-keeping.
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The same electron-absorbing tendency that thwarted the use of buckyballs in ion engines might be the key to slowing down the disease.
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On 29 August, it was announced that Ion Engine C onboard Hayabusa, in addition to B and D, had been successfully re-ignited.
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It was designed to use nuclear fission for power, ion engine propulsion, and would have studied Ganymede in greater detail than previously.
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Ion engine operation was suspended to measure the precise trajectory in preparation to perform Trajectory Correction Maneuver 1 to the Earth-rim trajectory.
