Technologies Finish Road Test on Cosmic Highway
NASA's Deep Space 1 mission has successfully
demonstrated most of its exotic technologies in space --
including an ion engine that is expected to be ten times more
efficient than conventional liquid or solid rocket engines --
proving they are ready for use in science missions of the
21st century. By summer, engineers expect to have finished testing all 12 technologies, including a robotic navigator that will guide the spacecraft to a rendezvous with asteroid 1992 KD on July 29 without active human control from the Earth. (Full Story)
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