GEORGE DILLER: The spacecraft mission team has successfully acquired
and has been getting data from the Phoenix spacecraft and it is now
reorienting itself toward the sun to get power, and at this point, everything
coming back to the ground station and the control stations at Denver and JPL
all look like things are going as they should be at this particular point after separation.
And Phoenix is reorienting itself toward the sun as is programmed.
So at this point, we know that the Phoenix spacecraft has
gotten through the most significant part of the early stage of spacecraft separation.
It's reoriented toward the sun. It's power positive, and they are
talking to the spacecraft through the Gulfstone tracking station. So it will be
a couple of hours before we still have a full state of health
that everything on Phoenix is working properly.