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The text below is summarized from the the New Millennium Project Technology Validation Reports for Deep Space 1 with permission of the web site NASA Responsibleofficial, C.W. Minning.
Mission Overview
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The primary goal of the DS1 mission was to validate advanced, high risk technologies that are important for future space and Earth science programs. Secondary goals were scientific in nature, and included obtaining images, spectra and particles and fieldsmeasurements of a near-Earth asteroid and a comet.
Deep Space 1 was launched from Pad 17-A at the Cape Canaveral Air Station at 12:08 UT (8:08 a.m. EDT), 24 October 1998, the first launch under NASA's Med-Lite booster program, on a Delta 7326-9.5 (a Delta II Lite launch vehicle with three strap-on solid-rocket boosters and a Star 37FM third stage). At 13:01 UT the third stage burn put DS1 into its solar orbit trajectory. DS1 separated from the Delta II about 550 km above the Indian Ocean. Telemetry was received by the NASA Deep Space Network 1 hour, 37 minutes after launch, a 13 minute delay from the expected time. The reason forthe delay is not known.
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