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Advanced Space Transportation Program (ASTP)
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An ion thruster is removed from a vacuum chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The thruster, a spare engine from NASA's Deep Space 1 mission, with a designed life of 8,000 hours, ran for a record 30,352 hours (nearly 5 years) giving researchers the ability to observe its performance and wear at different power levels throughout the test. This information will be vital to future missions that use ion propulsion.
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Credit lineAdvanced Space Transportation Program (ASTP). NASA/MSFC, 2003-07-21. Public domain. ID: 0301772.
