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John F. Kennedy Space Center
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FOR RELEASE: September 29, 1998 

PHOTO NO.: KSC-98PC-1182

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing 
Facility, workers complete the insulation of Deep Space 1. The 
first flight in NASA's New Millennium Program, Deep Space 1 is 
designed to validate 12 new technologies for scientific space 
missions of the next century. Onboard experiments include an ion 
propulsion engine and software that tracks celestial bodies so 
the spacecraft can make its own navigation decisions without the 
intervention of ground controllers. Deep Space 1 will complete 
most of its mission objectives within the first two months, but 
may also do a flyby of a near-Earth asteroid, 1992 KD, in July 
1999. Deep Space 1 will be launched aboard a Boeing Delta 7326 
rocket from Launch Pad 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, in 
October. Delta II rockets are medium capacity expendable launch 
vehicles derived from the Delta family of rockets built and 
launched since 1960. Since then there have been more than 245 
Delta launches.