Safe mode

NASA's $152 million New Millennium programme flagship Deep Space 1 is in safe mode after a star tracker attitude control system anomaly. But concerns remain over the reliability of its plasma experiment, which is to have a vital role during the two planned fly-bys of comets in 2001 as part ...

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