Sunday, March 29, 2009

DEEP SPACE-1” ON THE WAY TO THE COMET

Specialists NASA declared, that the interplanetary probe “Deep Of space-1” will in September 2001 complete flight near the comet Of borelly and will be conducted photographing the nucleus of comet. Flight became the possible after engineers OF NASA it was possible to load in on-board computer new software and to take under their control the apparatus, which since November 1999 accomplished flight in the protected regime after failure of the system of astronavigation. Firing the ion engine of ship was in July carried out and it was transferred into the trajectory, which makes it possible to draw together with the comet Of borelly. The planned in January 2001 flight near Wilson -Harrington comet does not take place because of the seven month interruption in the work “Deep Of space-1”:.

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