In-Flight operation of the Dawn ion propulsion system through year two of cruise to Ceres

Garner, Charles E.; Rayman, Marc D.

dc.contributor.author	Garner, Charles E.
dc.contributor.author	Rayman, Marc D.
dc.date.accessioned	2016-06-06T19:39:37Z
dc.date.available	2016-06-06T19:39:37Z
dc.date.issued	2014-07-28
dc.identifier.citation	AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference (JPC), Cleveland, Ohio, July 28-30, 2014	en_US
dc.identifier.clearanceno	14-2700
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2014/45606
dc.description.abstract	The Dawn mission, part of NASA's Discovery Program, has as its goal the scientific exploration of the two most massive main-belt asteroids, Vesta and Ceres. The Dawn spacecraft was launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on September 27, 2007 on a Delta-II 7925H-9.5 (Delta-II Heavy) rocket that placed the 1218-kg spacecraft onto an Earth-escape trajectory. On-board the spacecraft is an ion propulsion system (IPS) developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory which will provide a total ΔV of 11.3 km/s for the heliocentric transfer to Vesta, orbit capture at Vesta, transfer between Vesta science orbits, departure and escape from Vesta, heliocentric transfer to Ceres, orbit capture at Ceres, and transfer between Ceres science orbits.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	NASA/JPL	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2014	en_US
dc.title	In-Flight operation of the Dawn ion propulsion system through year two of cruise to Ceres	en_US
dc.type	Preprint	en_US