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Phoenix Status

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NASA's Phoenix spacecraft is on track for its destination in the Martian arctic.
"The latest calculation from our navigation team shows the center of the area where we're currently headed lies less than eight miles from the center of our target area," said Barry Goldstein, Phoenix project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "We may decide that we don'
t need to use our final opportunity for fine tuning the trajectory Phoenix is on. Either way, we will continue to monitor the trajectory, on the off chance we need to execute our contingency maneuver eight hours before entry." The spacecraft is in fine health. "All systems are nominal and stable
," said Ed Sedivy, Phoenix spacecraft program manager for Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, which built the spacecraft. "We have plenty of propellant, the temperatures look good and the batteries are fully charged." The spacecraft is closing in on the scariest seven minutes of the mission.
On 25th May 2008, Phoenix will be approaching Mars at about 12,750 miles per hour. After it enters the top of the Martian atmosphere at that velocity, it must use superheated friction with the atmosphere, a strong parachute and a set of pulsing retrorockets to achieve a safe, three-legged standstill
touchdown on the surface in just seven minutes. The earliest possible time when mission controllers could get confirmation from Phoenix indicating it has survived landing will be at 7:53 p.m. Eastern Time. Of eleven previous attempts that various nations have made to land spacecraft on Mars, only
five have succeeded.

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