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ESA Science News
http://sci.esa.int

06 Jun 2003

Latest status of Mars Express:
Mars Express now 1 million kilometres from Earth

This morning, at 5:30 UT, Mars Express passed the 1 million kilometre
mark in distance away from Earth on its journey towards the Red
Planet.

The spacecraft has successfully completed the first of several
trajectory correction manoeuvres. It also switched successfully from
the low-gain antenna to the high-gain antenna for communication with
Mission Control at the European Space Operations Centre in Germany.

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