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NASA Deep Space 1 makes a new space record

Posted by Hemos on from the beat-the-odds dept.

Imran Ghory writes "The NASA spacecraft, Deep Space 1 which is based upon an ion drive has achieved the longest operating time for a propulsion system in space. So far it has travelled 332 million kilometers(206 million miles), daily logs are available here."

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  1. Re:DS1 Mission Log archives by chrissam · · Score: 3

    The archives are at http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/ds1/archives.html and date back to October 1998.

    JPL's main website (www.jpl.nasa.gov) also has lots of links to their other projects.


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  2. The ion drive is old story by efuseekay · · Score: 3

    I wondered why DS1 tout the ion drive as "new".
    It's being used on Geosync Communication satellites as attitude thrusters for years (which due to the high efficiency, extend the life of Geosynchs by a factor of 2).

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