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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — At Astrotech's Hazardous Processing Facility, technicians are loading the Dawn spacecraft with xenon gas for the ion propulsion system. Dawn's mission is to explore two of the asteroid belt's most intriguing and dissimilar occupants: asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres. The Dawn spacecraft uses ion propulsion to get the additional velocity needed to reach Vesta once it leaves the Delta rocket.
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Credit lineKSC-07pd1388. NASA/KSC, 2007-06-07. Public domain. ID: KSC-07pd1388.
