Stardust Status Report June 28, 2002
There were no Deep Space Network communications passes during the past week.
Work continues on the Comet Wild 2 encounter Fault Tree analysis in preparations
for the Critical Event Readiness Review of Comet Wild 2 encounter testing.
The STARDUST Outreach team participated in the Teacher Enhancement Program,
sponsored by the National Science Foundation and hosted by the Institute of
Astronomy at the University of Hawaii. The focus of the program was Toward
Other Planetary Systems 2002, involving educators and the general public.
There, STARDUST personnel discussed comets and NASA missions to comets.
For more information on the Stardust mission — the first ever comet sample
return mission — please visit the Stardust home page:
