DS1 ON TO COMET BORRELLY
The star tracker failed on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Deep Space 1 on Nov. 11, making it difficult to determine spacecraft attitude and point it toward Earth, away from its Sun-point safe mode. But engineers were able to repoint the high-gain antenna at Earth on Jan. 14 and 21 by slewing DS1...
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