Long-range repair job sets up comet rendezvous for Deep Space 1
A long-range reprogramming job has rescued NASA's Deep Space 1 technology testbed for an extended mission to inspect a comet in September 2001. The Deep Space 1 spacecraft operations team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory managed to rig the probe's camera to work as a star tracker after the real star...
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