Another anomaly delays Deep Space 1 ion engine testing
Controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory postponed testing the xenon ion engine on the Deep Space 1 probe until next week at the earliest after the spacecraft put itself into safe mode again, this time during a test of its autonomous navigation system. Fault protection software on NASA's first...
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