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Dawn Dawn Mission
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Dawn How Do We Get There?
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Dawn DAWN A Journey to the Beginning of the Solar System Vesta Travel Plans: Dawn’s Itinerary The Dawn Spacecraft will travel 6.3 billion kilometers Almost ten years To the asteroid 4 Vesta and Dwarf planet 1 Ceres. Ceres
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Dawn Travel Plans: Cross-Country Trip A 3000 mile trip from Los Angeles to New York City requires: 120 gallons of fuel –16 cubic feet storage –adds 685 pounds weight 4 days travel time
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Dawn A Trip to Mars A 35 million mile trip from Earth to Mars requires: 900 metric tons of rocket fuel 6 months travel time
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Dawn Interplanetary Trajectory
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Dawn Hydrazine tank 45 kg capacity Xenon tank 450 kg capacity Folded solar arrays Ion thruster 2.3 meters Ion Propulsion System
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Dawn Thrust vs. Time
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