New Millennium program New Millennium program Champollion was a planned cometary rendezvous and landing spacecraft. It was named after Jean-François Champollion, a French Egyptologist known for studying the Rosetta stone. ...more on Wikipedia about "Champollion (spacecraft)"
The spacecraft Deep Space 1 was launched October 24, 1998 on top of a Delta II rocket. As part of NASA's New Millennium program, the primary goal was the testing of twelve advanced technologies that have the potential to lower the cost and risk of future missions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Deep Space 1"
The Deep Space 2 mission, which launched in January 1999 as part of NASA's New Millennium Program, consisted of two highly advanced miniature probes to Mars. They were intended to be the first spacecraft ever to penetrate below the surface of another planet. The Deep Space 2 probes were also the first landers to use only an aeroshell, lacking parachutes or rockets to reduce their impact velocity. ...more on Wikipedia about "Deep Space 2"
NASA's New Millennium program is focused on engineering validation of new technologies for space applications. ...more on Wikipedia about "New Millennium program"
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