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                  Genesis Mission Status Update
                          March 14, 2003

The Genesis spacecraft continues to operate in overall good health. It 
has collected solar wind material expelled from the Sun for almost 15 
months. 

Over this past week, the spacecraft's "low solar speed" collector 
array has been logging the majority of collection time. There are 
three collector arrays aboard Genesis that are exposed to or hidden 
from the solar wind, one for each of the three solar wind regimes. 
Which collector array is exposed is determined by the data received by 
sensitive ion and electron monitors located on the spacecraft's 
equipment deck. These monitors scrutinize the solar wind passing by 
the spacecraft and relay this information to the onboard computer, 
which in turn commands the collector arrays to deploy and retract as 
needed. 

Genesis Vital Statistics: 
-- 583 days since launch. 
-- 387 days to planned completion of solar particle collection. 
-- 544 days to Genesis return to Earth. 

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