Deep Space 1 Stories
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10 Things: Looking Back at Deep Space 1
5 min read
Twenty years ago this month, NASA launched a spacecraft designed to test 12 new technologies that could lead to advances in space exploration.
Article6 years ago
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The Prius of Space
6 min read
What if you need to motor somewhere three billion-plus miles off the beaten path - somewhere where neither regular nor premium unleaded have so far feared to tread?
Article17 years ago
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So Long to ‘The Little Spacecraft that Could’
4 min read
Deep Space 1, JPL's successful mission to test 12 advanced technologies in deep space to lower the cost and risk to future science-driven missions that use them for the first time, comes to an end Dec. 18.
Article23 years ago