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- Interview with Barry Kellett - October 2006 (MP3)
Nick Rattenbury talked to Barry Kellett (the science investigator for the D-CIXS instrument on SMART-1) about the most fuel efficient mission to the Moon. ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft took 15 months and used just 80 litres of Xenon in its ion drive. Nick finds out how the ion drive works, how SMART-1 got to the Moon and what it aimed to find out when it got there. We also find out about the impact of SMART-1 with the lunar suface on 3rd September 2006.








