Stardust Status Report

July 6, 2001

There was one Deep Space Network tracking pass this week. All subsystems are performing normally.

The Cometary and Interstellar Dust Analyzer (CIDA) instrument continues to observe the interstellar dust stream with an optimal spacecraft attitude when not in communication with Earth.

The remaining Navigation Camera's guide star images continue to be downlinked. Analyses of the images continue to show no re-contamination.

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