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June 14, 2003

so far so good

JPL and NASA:

"NASA's Spirit spacecraft, the first of twin Mars Exploration Rovers, has successfully reduced its spin rate as planned and switched to celestial navigation using a star scanner.

All systems on the spacecraft are in good health. As of 48 hours after the June 10 launch, Spirit had traveled 5,630,000 kilometers "

More at JPL News Release.

Posted by asa at June 14, 2003 11:32 AM
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