NASA Restarts Dawn Asteroid Mission After Review

Credit: PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE
A troubled NASA effort to explore two "protoplanets" in the asteroid belt with a solar-electric-propelled spacecraft will go forward as planned, following a review by the U.S. agency's top engineer. Associate Administrator Rex Geveden overturned an earlier decision by NASA's Science Mission...

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