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Old July 25th 03, 05:44 PM
Ron Baalke
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Default STARDUST Update - July 25, 2003


Stardust Status Report
July 25, 2003

The Stardust team had six periods of communication with the spacecraft in
the past week. Telemetry relayed from the spacecraft indicates it is
healthy and all subsystems continue to operate normally.

On Wednesday July 23, Stardust successfully completed its second orbit
around the sun and has started its third and final orbit.

The Stardust flight team is continuing its effort to finalize all plans for
the Comet Wild 2 encounter. An 'Encounter Workshop' is scheduled for mid-August
to complete all encounter action items. The remainder of this year will be
spent in testing and training for encounter together with a formal critical
events readiness review in November.

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 .


 




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