Key facts
- Mission type
- Technology demonstrator
- Operator
- NASA / JPL
- Cospar id
- 1998-061A
- Website
- jpl.nasa.gov
- Mission duration
- 3 years, 1 month and 24 days
- Manufacturer
- Orbital Sciences
- Launch mass
- 486 kg (1,071 lb)
- Dry mass
- 373 kg (822 lb)
- Dimensions
- 2.1 × 11.8 × 2.5 m (6.9 × 38.6 × 8.2 ft)
- Power
- 2,500 watts
- Launch date
- 24 October 1998, 12:08 ( 1998-10-24UTC12:08 ) UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7326 , D-261
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SLC-17A
- Contractor
- Boeing
- Disposal
- Decommissioned
- Deactivated
- 18 December 2001, 20:00 ( 2001-12-18UTC21 ) UTC
- Closest approach
- 29 July 1999, 04:46 UTC
- Distance
- 26 km (16 mi)
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Encyclopedic overview
DS1 mission logo New Millennium program
Deep Space 1 (DS1) was a NASA technology demonstration spacecraft which flew by an asteroid and a comet. It was part of the New Millennium Program, dedicated to testing advanced technologies.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Deep Space 1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.