[meteorite-list] STARDUST Update - December 13, 2002

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:53:34 2004
Message-ID: <200212131827.KAA20997_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

                      STARDUST Status Report
                        December 13, 2002

During this past week, the Stardust flight team had three periods of
communication with the spacecraft courtesy of the antennas of JPL's Deep
Space Network. The telemetry relayed during this interval indicated the
spacecraft is healthy and all subsystems were running normally.

On December 9, Stardust successfully concluded its second collection
period of interstellar particles. Telemetry verified the spacecraft's
Wrist, Shoulder, and Hinge motors all performed as expected and that the
collection grid was successfully stowed. This collection period spanned
126 days.

The last of the in-flight activities associated with Stardust's
November 2 rendezvous of comet Annefrank has been completed and the
spacecraft's computer memory has been configured to the normal cruise
configuration.

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 .
Received on Fri 13 Dec 2002 01:27:44 PM PST