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                      Stardust Status Report
                           March 7, 2003

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

The Stardust Education and Public Outreach team participated in the 
Mars K-12 Education Workshop in Tempe, Arizona and demonstrated the 
importance of comet modeling. Approximately 125 educators were in 
attendance.

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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