Dawn Operating Normally After Safe Mode Triggered

Dawn Operating Normally After Safe Mode Triggered
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 17, 2014 - The Dawn spacecraft has resumed normal ion thrusting after the thrusting unexpectedly stopped and the spacecraft entered safe mode on September 11. That anomaly occurred shortly before a planned communication with NASA's Deep Space Network that morning. The spacecraft was not performing any special activities at the time. Engineers immediately began working to restore the spacecraft to its ... more

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