Stardust Status Report November 30, 2001
There were two Deep Space Network tracking passes in the
past week, and all subsystems are operating normally.
Stardust is currently 2.53 AU (over 235 million miles) from the
Sun.
The November/December 2001 issue of MERCURY magazine featured
the Stardust project in an article called “Collecting Cosmic Dust.”
The project reviewed a draft video of a space exploration program,
featuring Stardust project members, to be aired on The Learning Channel
in May 2002.
For more information on the Stardust mission — the first ever
comet sample return mission — please visit the Stardust home page:
