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Réf : S12813
Thème :
Essais - Constructions - Satellites - Sondes - Fusées (2314 images)
Titre : Wearing special protective suits
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(08/17/1998) -- Wearing special protective suits, workers maneuver NASA’s Deep Space 1 spacecraft into place for prelaunch processing in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at KSC. Targeted for launch on a Boeing Delta 7326 rocket on Oct. 15, 1998, the first flight in NASA’s New Millennium Program is designed to validate 12 new technologies for scientific space missions of the next century. Onboard experiments include an ion propulsion engine and software that tracks celestial bodies so the spacecraft can make its own navigation decisions without the intervention of ground controllers. Deep Space 1 will complete most of its mission objectives within the first two months, but will also do a flyby of a near-Earth asteroid, 1992 KD, in July 1999
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