STATUS REPORT Date Released: Monday, October 6, 2008 Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Comments The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Sept. 30 from the Deep Space Network tracking complex at Madrid, Spain. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally. Information on the present position and speed of the Cassini spacecraft may be found on the "Present Position" page at: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/operations/present-position.cfm. Wednesday, Sept. 24 (DOY 268): The Optical Remote Sensing (ORS) instrument teams and the Science Planning team have all confirmed that live update #3 for Saturn and Tethys on DOY 275-277 is not required and may be cancelled. An AACS friction test of the backup reaction wheel (RWA) #3 was completed Sept. 23. For this test, performed...
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