Space 1

Engaging simulators to help museum visitors experience some of the challenge and thrill of space flight.

Space 1. Welcome to historic space systems here you will find. Educational resources including spacecraft information kits handbook illustrations of us manned spacecraft and actual spacecraft artifacts. Deep space 1 ds1 was a pioneering spacecraft launched in the late 1990s as part of nasa s new millennium program.

Nasa s deep space 1 was an engineering test flight for a dozen new technologies including highly efficient ion engines and autonomous navigation software. Ds1 s primary mission was a resounding success. Problems during its initial stages and with its star tracker.

Learn more about space1. The mission was extended twice to include an encounter with comet 19p borrelly and further engineering testing. The world s first collaboration product combining augmented reality and artificial intelligence customer expectations continue to rise competition attempts to take a bigger share and technology tools evolve.

All 12 technology tests were successful. The primary goal of the spacecraft s mission was to test dozens of new and. Its successful missions to asteroid 9969 braille and comet borrelly using the revolutionary technology heralded a new age of ion propelled spacecraft such as nasa s dawn built for tricky flights to elusive space objects like comets and asteroids.

Launched on 24 october 1998 the deep space 1 spacecraft carried out a flyby of asteroid 9969 braille which was its primary science target. The most realistic and historically accurate spacecraft reproductions available. It was part of the new millennium program dedicated to testing advanced technologies.

Asteroid 9969 braille was a bonus science target.