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Ion Engine, Cesium, Eos

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    Cylinder, upright, shiny metal, with irregular-shaped silver and gray metal ion thruster proper mounted on top of higher of the two-step yellow platform on top of cylinder. Thruster a horizontal cylinder mounted on metal rectangular structure with fine mesh screens on each side and on one end, facing periphery of upright cylinder; four equidstant cigar-shaped horizontal protrusions or tubes around thruster support structure base, with grill-like openings on each tube. Front of thruster at end of thruster cylinder facing toward center of upright cylinder; recessed into this end is brass or copper colored disc with many equidistant holes for projecting ionized particles; three narrow guage electrical wires projecting from one side of thruster and two on the other, with leads of all these wires connected to vertical black connectors on lower yellow platform. Silver metal, shelf-like structure or canopy mounted over front end of thruster, with its two support legs secured to lower yellow platform; wheel-like structure adjacent to one of the support legs and also affixed to lower yellow platform.

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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

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11/18/2021

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