Genesis Mission Status Update 17 Jan 2002

The second station keeping maneuver, SKM-1B, was successfully executed
yesterday at high noon Mountain Time. The burn, which took about 282
seconds, was accurate to about 0.1 degree. Following this, star tracker
images were taken for trending purposes. Initially, it seems that this
maneuver was even better than the already good SKM-1A. SKM-1C is scheduled
for mid-March.

This morning, a rejection grid test was performed with somewhat surprising
results: The rejection grid was stepped up in 20-volt increments from 1500
to 1620 volts, and performed well. Previously, we had only been able to take
the rejection grid up to about 1540 volts (while stepping up in larger
increments). Next week, we will do more tests to see if we can now raise the
software limit on the rejection grid.

We had three different solar wind regimes over the last week. We had a
high-speed coronal mass ejection followed by high-speed wind. Now slow
(interstream) solar wind is probably passing by the spacecraft. Science has
reported that everything is going swimmingly.