Testing Technologies

A Close-up of an Asteroid

Tailing a Comet

Mission

Spacecraft

Where's DS1 Right Now?

With the beginning of this millennium, NASA envisions an ambitious space exploration program through which we can push back the frontiers of the universe.

Undertaking this vision is a challenge for engineers who must develop and design the extraordinary spacecraft of the future. The New Millennium Program, with its advanced technology focus, is one of NASA's many efforts to develop and test an arsenal of cutting-edge technologies and concepts. Once proven to work, these technologies will be used by future missions to probe the universe.

Deep Space 1, which launched at 5:08 AM (Pacific Daylight Time) on October 24, 1998, was the first in a series of deep space and Earth-orbiting missions that the New Millennium Program is conducting to demonstrate new technologies in the environment of space.