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Stardust Status Report
April 4, 2003

This past week, the Stardust flight team used the antennas of JPL's
Deep Space Network on four occasions. Data relayed from the
spacecraft during these contact indicated Stardust is healthy and all
subsystems continue to run normally.

Four Star Camera images were taken and sent to the ground to 
determine the performance of the Star Camera.   The performance 
evaluation is expected to be completed next week.
 
Information on the present position 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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