How is NASA overseeing the DS1 mission?
NASA is tracking DS1 through use of the Deep Space Network, which is a set
of radio telescopes that can receive data from spacecraft. DS1 will send back
(or "downlink") telemetry which will tell NASA if the technology being
tested on DS1 is working correctly.
How does NASA run space missions?
What is DS1's programmed mission?
What new technologies are being
tested on DS1?
What
is the difference between DS1 and NASA's autonomous spacecraft?
What is DSN?
What are uplink
and downlink?
What is telemetry?
How
will we know if the new technologies work?
What
kind of data is DS1 sending back?
Why
are we testing new technologies on DS1?
