NASA Launches Dart Spacecraft to Demonstrate Automated Rendezvous Capability

"Jacques van Oene" wrote in message
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For more information about the DART mission, please visit:


http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/dart/main/index.html

This page contains a link to this article:

On Orbit Anomaly Ends DART Mission Early
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/da...ia/05-051.html

Sad really. Automated rendezvous and docking is a technology that NASA
really ought to have. The Russians first did this nearly 40 years ago (way
back in 1967):

Cosmos 186
http://www.friends-partners.org/part...s/cosos186.htm

Jeff
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