Magellan Significant Events for Week Ending 03/18/94

1.  The Magellan spacecraft continues to perform nominally and gather high-
resolution gravity data.

*2.  The Magellan "end-of-mission plan" has received preliminary verbal
concurrence by Code SL. The plan must still be approved by Code S and Code A.
Under this plan we would continue high-resolution gravity data collection,
radio science and aeronomy through early October, followed by a "windmill
experiment" which will cause the spacecraft to enter and burn up in Venus'
atmosphere.  Mission operations would end by October 31, 1994 and the project
closed down by late January 1995.
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  Via FTL BBS (404-292-8761) and NASA Spacelink (205-895-0028)
