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STARDUST Update - June 5, 1998

                           STARDUST Status Report
                                June 5, 1998
                                 Ken Atkins
                          STARDUST Project Manager

Assembly, Test, and Launch Operations (ATLO) activities: Excellent Progress
this week by the Flight System & ATLO Team. The flight solar arrays were
installed and characterized in less time than scheduled. The navigation
camera (NavCam) installation was completed and end-to-end connectivity
established and tested. This marks end-to-end check out and testing of all
three active science interfaces on the flight system, e.g. dust flux monitor
(DFM), cometary & interstellar dust analyzer (CIDA) and NavCam. A fit-check
on the NavCam periscope was also completed. Solutions were developed for the
waveguide and Power Control Assembly (PCA) interference issues reported last
week and are being implemented. A successful exercise of a trajectory
correction maneuver (TCM) with the software was run and preparations for the
upcoming Spacecraft Performance Test #1 progressed well.

Assembly, Test, and Launch Operations (ATLO) activities: Excellent Progress
this week by the Flight System & ATLO Team. The flight solar arrays were
installed and characterized in less time than scheduled. The navigation
camera (NavCam) installation was completed and end-to-end connectivity
established and tested. This marks end-to-end check out and testing of all
three active science interfaces on the flight system, e.g. dust flux monitor
(DFM), cometary & interstellar dust analyzer (CIDA) and NavCam. A fit-check
on the NavCam periscope was also completed. Solutions were developed for the
waveguide and Power Control Assembly (PCA) interference issues reported last
week and are being implemented. A successful exercise of a trajectory
correction maneuver (TCM) with the software was run and preparations for the
upcoming Spacecraft Performance Test #1 progressed well.

On the name collection campaign: As of June 4, more than 200,000 names have
been received for the second Microchip. The "Zoom In On the Microchip"
section of the Home Page is complete.

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