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Engineers assess reaction wheel on NASA’s Dawn spacecraft

Submit on Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 22:54

Engineers are studying the reaction wheels on NASA’s Dawn spacecraft after automatic sensors detected excess friction building up in one of them and powered it off early on the morning of 17 June 2010.
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