The title pretty much summarizes the question.
Weirdly, googling „dawn spaceprobe burn time“ and similar things didn‘t turn up anything useful (at least for me), so I was wondering if maybe someone here knows how long dawn‘s xenon reserves lasted?
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Sign up to join this communityThe title pretty much summarizes the question.
Weirdly, googling „dawn spaceprobe burn time“ and similar things didn‘t turn up anything useful (at least for me), so I was wondering if maybe someone here knows how long dawn‘s xenon reserves lasted?
Never mind, it‘s 51,385 hours (wow!)
From NASA's Dawn by the Numbers:
Source: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech
Published: November 15, 2018
NASA's Dawn mission by the numbers:
51,385 hours of ion engine thrusting.
172 GB of science data collected.
3,052 orbits around Vesta and Ceres
100,000 images taken.
4.3+ billion miles (6.9+ billion kilometers) traveled since launch.
367+ million miles (591+ million kilometers): Farthest distance from Earth.
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