Stardust Status Report

May 25, 2001

The Stardust spacecraft continues to operate in excellent condition.

A project-wide workshop was held to review the entire Comet Wild 2 encounter plan, which was developed before launch, and to update this plan based upon the current understanding of the spacecraft, payload instruments, ground system, Deep Space Network and operations team actual flight performances. The participants included the Principal Investigator and most Co-Investigators, the Flight Team at Lockheed Martin Astronautics and the Management and Operations Team at JPL. Also included in the discussions were the testing and review of the updated encounter plan, including possibly using the Asteroid 5535 Annefrank close flyby opportunity.

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