This 1998 image shows the Deep Space 1 Technology Demonstrator featuring many new technologies, but none so high-tech as the ion propulsion system. (Image credit: NASA.) Catching a comet.

Deep Space 1 was launched in October 1998 as part of NASA's New Millennium Program, which is managed by JPL for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C.

Deep Space 1 was launched in October 1998 as part of NASA's New Millennium Program, which is managed by JPL for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, DC.

NASA's adventurous Deep Space 1 mission, which successfully tested 12 high-risk, advanced space technologies and captured the best images ever taken of a comet, will come to an end Dec. 18, 2001.

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of NASA’s Deep Space 1 (DS1) mission, who tucked the CD inside his spacecraft just before it was launched in 1998. “The CD is a time capsule, ...

Deep Space 1, which had its original mission extended in September 1999, cruised within 2,200 kilometers (1,400 miles) of the comet Borrelly this past Saturday at approximately 3:30 p.m. PDT ...