A lot has happened in these past few months, so please read on. We would like to share it with you. During the thruster burn, communication with the spacecraft was lost. Contact was reestablished on December 22nd, where they found the spacecraft to be a year and a half away from the asteroid's orbit. The spacecraft will now rendezvous with 433 Eros in February 2000.
Some data is available from Eros due to the recent flyby.
The NEARlink program will still proceed as planned. Once data is available from 433 Eros, you will have access to this as well. If you have not visited our NEARlink site, you may want to check it out. For those of you participating in the NEARlink program, the curricula for elementary and high school is up. The middle school curriculum is soon to follow.