The NEAR spacecraft has been in Operations Mode with Flight Computer 1 and Attitude Interface Unit 2 in control.
All instruments are presently 'On'.
Nominal vehicle attitude during this reporting period has been Sun-pointing. Both ranging and instrument operations were nominal. Mission Operations continues to dedicate personnel to the on-going investigations regarding the aborted burn on December 20, 1998. Mr. Karl Whittenburg will be accepting the award at the AIAA Space Technology Conference and Exposition to be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico in September. Previous Y2K tests will be re-run to verify its proper operation with system clocks set to Y2K. Testing of the Eros Rendezvous sequence continues.