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4.0 Cruise Phases<br />

4.1 Overview<br />

The STARDUST mission has nearly six years of relatively low activity cruise. The<br />

cruise phases are subdivided into Cruise 1 (Earth-Earth), Cruise 2 (Earth-Wild-2), and<br />

Cruise 3 (Wild-2-Earth). Within these phase are embedded the following subphases: ISP<br />

collection, Deep Space Maneuvers (DSM), and Trajectory Correction Maneuvers (TCM).<br />

Other activities that occur during the cruise phases but do not have specific subphases<br />

associated with them are the CIDA and DFMI experiments.<br />

The spacecraft trajectory for this phase is the same as shown in Figure 2.3-1. Cruise<br />

phases and subphases are defined in Table 4.1-1. The Cruise phase data set is considered<br />

the same as the Mission data set and can be found in Section 9.1.<br />

Table 4.1-1 Cruise Phase Subphase Definition<br />

Cruise Phase Sub-Phases Time<br />

(L+days)<br />

Cruise 1 (Earth-Earth)<br />

30 - 649<br />

DSM-1 (TCM 2)<br />

398 - 402<br />

ISP Collection<br />

403 - 469<br />

TCM 3 (DSM-1 + 30 d)<br />

432<br />

Cruise 2 (Earth-Wild-2)<br />

Cruise 3 (Wild-2-Earth)<br />

ISP Collection<br />

DSM-2 (TCM 7)<br />

DSM-3 (TCM 8)<br />

TCM 9 (DSM-3 + 7 d)<br />

TCM 16 (3rd aphelion)<br />

739 - 1691<br />

1267 - 1402<br />

1130<br />

1609 - 1611<br />

1618<br />

1841 - 2445<br />

2063<br />

Duration<br />

(days)<br />

619<br />

5<br />

66<br />

-<br />

952<br />

135<br />

1<br />

3<br />

-<br />

604<br />

-<br />

4.2 Interstellar Dust Science<br />

Interstellar dust collection is concentrated in the part of the trajectory where the<br />

Interstellar dust impact velocity is relatively low (inbound trajectory legs). Collection is<br />

performed only during the first two loops resulting in 201 days of total collection time.<br />

Collection is not performed on the third loop to avoid contamination of the cometary<br />

samples collected during the encounter with Wild-2. CIDA and DFMI operations are<br />

nearly continuous, essentially whenever there is sufficient power to turn the instruments<br />

on. However, prime CIDA periods can be defined as those during which the interstellar<br />

dust stream is made to fall within the field-of-view of the CIDA instrument, while not<br />

violating power availability or conflicting with other important mission activities.<br />

With passive experiments and without the need for stringent attitude control (the<br />

uncertainty in the radiant direction of the interstellar dust could be as large as 30°), these<br />

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