DS1 Guiding Itself Toward Asteroid
Deep Space 1 is midway through the second six-week burn of its xenon ion engine, gently altering its trajectory toward a 9-km. flyby of the asteroid 1992 KD on July 28-29. The spacecraft's autonomous navigation (autonav) system is to take full control of the flight path this week. Autonav is one of...
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