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Stardust Status Report
April 25, 2003

Stardust exited its 'solar conjunction period' on April 18. Solar 
conjunction period is the interval of time where the Sun obscures the
line of sight between Earth and the spacecraft, making it virtually
impossible to transmit radio signals between the two.

The Stardust team enjoyed two periods of communications with the
spacecraft in the past week. Telemetry relayed from the spacecraft
indicates it is healthy and all subsystems continue to operate
normally. 

Information on the relative positions and orbits of the Stardust
spacecraft and comet Wild 2 may be found on the "Where Is Stardust
Right Now?" web page located at:

http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/scnow.html

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 .

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