25 August 2015
NASA’s Dawn gets up close and personal with Ceres: stunning conical mountain revealed in detail
.... Marc Rayman, Dawn chief engineer and mission director, has written for us about the importance of the ion propulsion engine to the Dawn mission. Now NASA has published some truly spectacular close-ups of Ceres that...
31 December 2021
Space missions to watch out for in 2022
... the interior of terrestrial planets like our own. On its journey, Psyche will also be used to validate a new ion propulsion system and a new method of communication by laser. This technology demonstration encodes its messages on photons – particles...
