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Lunar Prospector Status Report #65

January 15 , 1999 - 1:00 p.m. EST (10:00 a.m. PST)

The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is operating well and all instruments continue to collect good data.

An attitude reorientation maneuver was successfully completed this morning. Thursters A1/A4 were pulsed 22 times to precess the spin axis attitude by 4.2 deg. The timeline is given below (times are GMT).

015/16:15 A1/A4 thruster heaters on 015/16:44 Fire A1/A4 thrusters for 22 0.2 sec pulses (used 0.06 kg propellant)


Current spacecraft state (1800 GMT 01/15/99):

Orbit: 4515
Downlink: 3600 bps
Spin Rate: 12.00 rpm

Spin Axis Attitude (ecliptic):
Latitude: -87.3 deg
Longitude: 229 deg

Trajectory:
Periapsis Alt: 30 km
Apoapsis Alt: 49 km
Period: 112 min

Occultations: 6 minutes
Eclipses: none
Propellant Remaining: 17.39 kg