Status Report

Stardust Status Report October 19, 2001

By SpaceRef Editor
October 19, 2001
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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.nasa.gov

SpaceRef staff editor.