Leaders of the Lucy asteroid mission
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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Is There an Eye on Engine?
Dawn's main engine is a chemical propulsion system to give those burns, which does the major orbit squeaking. The thing about dawn is that they did over 12 kilometers per second at delta v using the using n star iron engines. They weren't reaely using a lot of gravity. Whereas for us, we're only do ot one point seven kilometer per second af delta v. So in engines would deftnitly enable more options here.
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