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Dawn is a spacecraft that was launched in 2007 to study the Asteroid Belt, specifically Vesta and Ceres.
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Was DAWN's power-limited propulsion really limited by power used to accelerate the ions?
According to wikipedia each Nustar engine on Dawn used 2100W, and achieved 92mN of thrust with an exhaust velocity around 30 km/s. So from the thrust and the exhaust velocity we can compute the Xenon …