The spacecraft remains in good health and is currently about 49 million kilometers from Earth. No significant spacecraft operations were performed this week.
Entry, Descent, and Landing Flight Software Testing is progressing well. We completed an airbag retraction test in the Building 230 Sandbox last week, and have finished a set of parachute deploy and rocket ignition algorithm robustness tests this week. A couple of significant issues have come up in this testing which are likely to cause us to change flight software. A flight software change board meeting will be held on April 1 to determine what changes to make and what regression tests to perform.
A telecon was held with NASA HQ on proposed funding for JPL PIO. Significant scrubbing of this budget was performed and a new proposal from PIO will be discussed with HQ early next week.
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