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2003
Stardust raises its shields (JPL, Dec. 31)
Stardust closing quickly on Wild 2 (JPL, Dec. 30)
Encounter is key moment in UW astronomer's long quest (UW, Dec. 19)
Daily navigation images taken in support of upcoming encounter (JPL, Dec. 19)
How Stardust stays on target (JPL, Dec. 16)
Trajectory correction maneuver sets Stardust for comet encounter (JPL, Dec. 5)
Stardust catches first glimpse of Wild 2 as encounter nears (JPL, Dec. 1)
Stardust telemetry in good shape as Wild 2 encounter approaches (JPL, Nov. 14)
Camera has small amount of contamination -- heaters activated (JPL, Oct. 17)
Stardust healthy 84 days from Wild 2 encounter (JPL, Oct. 10)
Spacecraft ready to exit solar conjunction (JPL, Oct. 3)
Peer review started for Comet Wild 2 dust model (JPL, Sept. 26)
Telemetry indicates spacecraft healthy three months from encounter (JPL, Sept. 19)
Formal testing of comet encounter sequence has started (JPL, Sept. 12)
Telemetry shows Stardust is healthy four months from comet encounter (JPL, Sept. 5)
Observation plan includes Keck, Lowell, Table Mountain observatories (JPL, Aug. 29)
Comet encounter workshop held at UW (JPL, Aug. 22)
Flight team working to finalize plans for Wild 2 encounter (JPL, Aug. 8)
Spacecraft is in two-month solar conjunction (JPL, Aug. 1)
Stardust completes second orbit around sun (JPL, July 25)
Trajectory correction maneuver successful (JPL, July 18)
Preparations started for next trajectory correction maneuver (JPL, July 11)
Capsule-return engineering activities completed (JPL, July 3)
Activities begun to reduce uncertainty during capsule return in 2006 (JPL, June 27)
Telemetry indicates Stardust is in good health (JPL, June 20)
Deep-space maneuver puts Stardust on trajectory for comet (JPL, June 19)
Preparations underway for deep-space maneuver (JPL, June 13)
Test cases to simulate dust particle hits continue (JPL, June 6)
Tests to simulate dust particle hits have begun (JPL, May 30)
Comet-encounter simulation successfully completed in test lab (JPL, May 23)
In-flight testing needed for Earth Return is finalized (JPL, May 16)
Dust analyzer has successful data transfer test (JPL, May 9)
New commands will increase battery's maximum voltage (JPL, May 2)
Two communications session follow solar conjunction (JPL, April 25)
Comet Wild 2 encounter sequence test completed at Spacecraft Test Lab (JPL, April 18)
Communications blocked by solar conjunction (JPL, April 14)
Four images taken to test star camera performance (JPL, April 4)
Remaining Pleiades images downloaded (JPL, March 28)
Pleiades images received so far are of good quality (JPL, March 21)
Stardust transmits five of 32 Pleiades images (JPL, March 14)
Ten months from comet encounter, Stardust in good shape (JPL, March 7)
Two communications sessions show spacecraft doing well (JPL, Feb. 28)
Stardust to transfer remaining Pleiades photos in early March (JPL, Feb. 21)
Three Deep Space Network sessions show Stardust in good shape (JPL, Feb. 14)
Dust analyzer returned to operations (JPL, Feb. 7)
Annefrank flyby is allowing flight controllers to plan far ahead (JPL, Jan. 31)
Navigation camera snaps pictures to test periscope (JPL, Jan. 24)
Dust analyzer switched on during second communication session (JPL, Jan. 17)
Don Brownlee co-authors book on history and ultimate end of the world (UW, Jan. 13)
Stardust operating normally less than a year from comet encounter (JPL, Jan. 10)
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