Dawn is able to perform the trick of moving from one asteroid to another thanks to itsion-rocket engines, pioneered on an earlier NASA mission called Deep Space One.
由于有了离子火箭发动机,黎明号能够施展自己的绝技从一个小行星飞行到另一个小行星。
Unlike conventional rockets, which use high-energy chemical reactions to force a stream ofhot gas out of the engine,
这种发动机始创于美国宇航局早期的太空一号任务。与传统火箭不同,离子火箭发动机利用电场对飞船底部燃料中的带电粒子进行加速,
ion rockets employ electric fields to accelerate charged particles of fuel out of the back ofthe spacecraft.
而传统火箭是采用高能量化学反应将热气流排出发动机。
Ion engines give a pretty feeble kick.
离子发动机产生的振动极其微弱。
Dawn s produce 92 millinewtons of thrust, something like a fiftieth of the amount in asmallish firework rocket.
黎明号产生的推进力仅为0.092牛顿,是小型烟花火箭推进力的五十分之一。
The exhaust velocity, though, is enormousmore than ten times that of a chemicalrocketand this makes ion propulsion extremely efficient.
但其排气速度却异常惊人,大约为化学燃料火箭的十倍这使得离子推进器的效率非常高。
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