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Deep Space One: NASA's First Deep-Space Technology Validation Mission

Abstract

Under development for launch in July 1998, Deep Space One (DS1) is the first flight of NASA's New Millennium Program, Chartered to validate selected technologies required for future low-cost space science programs. Advanced technologies chosen for validation on DS1 include solar electric propulsion, high-power solar concentrator arrays, autonomous on-board optical navigation, two low-mass science instrument packages, and several telecommunications and microelectronics devices.

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Lehman, David H., Rayman, Marc D.. 1997-10-06. Deep Space One: NASA's First Deep-Space Technology Validation Mission. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20210003488

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