STARDUST Update - September 5, 2003

Stardust Status Report
September 5, 2003

There was one Deep Space Network (DSN) tracking pass in the past week.
Telemetry relayed from the spacecraft indicates it is healthy and all
subsystems continue to operate normally.

The Education and Public Outreach team participated in the Annual
Challenger Center Nation Conference in Kansas City, Missouri.
Forty seven Challenger Centers from throughout the United States were
represented including England.

The flight software patch to select images during the Comet Wild 2 encounter
was delivered to Spacecraft Test Laboratory (STL) for testing. This patch
is expected to provide at least one of the higher resolution nucleus
images early in the encounter data playback.

A group of international comet experts has been invited to be part of
the Comet Wild 2 Dust Model Peer Review Board.

Information on the present position and orbits of the Stardust spacecraft
and comet Wild 2 may be found on the "Where Is Stardust Right Now?" web
page located at:

http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/scnow.html

For more information on the Stardust mission -- the first ever comet
sample-return mission -- please visit the Stardust home page:

http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov .