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Dawn Spacecraft Diagram No. 2

Diagram of spacecraft
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M.D. Rayman et al./Acta Astronautica 58 (2006) 605 – 616
Published: December 12, 2018

A diagram of the Dawn spacecraft from 2006.

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