(meteorobs) Fwd: STARDUST Update - October 19, 2001

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• From: Ron Baalke (via Lew Gramer) <baalke@zagami.jpl.nasadot gov>
• Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:45:30 -0400
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                    STARDUST Status Report
                       October 19, 2001

Stardust Gets an "A" in Command Performance

There was one Deep Space Network communications session this past week 
and all subsystems are performing normally. The spacecraft is 2.4 AU 
from the Sun. Though it is so far out, it has not required to use the 
battery yet to support communications with Earth,  since the solar 
arrays continue to produce more than enough power.

A review of command history performance over the entire 2.7-year flight 
mission was held and command success has been 99.5 percent.  Procedures 
have been implemented to increase this success rate.

For more information on the Stardust mission -- the first ever 
comet sample return mission -- please visit the Stardust home page:
 
http://stardust.jpl.nasadot gov


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