A design by North American/Rockwell for the same contract as the TRW 'Solar Electric Multi Mission Spacecraft'. Unlike that vehicle, which was intended for use for a variety of missions, this spacecraft was optimised for untargeted asteroid belt exploration, though with it's particle and fields...
1970
cold war
deep space probes
early 1970s
hughes aircraft company
hughesresearchlabs
ion thruster
jet propulsion laboratory
nasa
north american rockwell
solar-powered
space age
space probes
space race
united states
vietnam war
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