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Deep Impact Probe Uses “Star Wars” Technology

July 4, 2005 :: San Diego Union Tribune :: News

The Deep Impact spacecraft’s successful collision with the Tempel 1 comet on July 3 was largely the result of technology created by Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Bruce Lieberman, writing in the San Diego Union-Tribune, notes the seemingly insurmountable obstacles overcome by NASA scientists and engineers: “Sending a spacecraft to a comet presents its own navigation challenges. But hitting one, at closing speeds of 23,000 mph, was a different ballgame.” As Lieberman notes, technology designed and developed under the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program contributed to allow NASA engineers to meet the challenge of creating a spacecraft capable of colliding with a comet at such enormous speeds. (Article)

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