NASA's Dawn Mission Addresses Second Reaction Wheel Loss

Credit: Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
HOUSTON — The Dawn mission team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have slowed the probe’s scheduled Aug. 25 gravitational escape from Vesta until early September while controllers checked out high friction readings from a second spacecraft reaction wheel. The condition is not...

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