- MRO safe, stable, fully charged, no engineering issues with spacecraft whatsoever

- Insertion sequence loaded, MRO enabled to burn autonomously without further orders from Earth

- Desaturation maneuver performed on Wednesday

- No command activity yesterday or today, none needed

- Small firing of attitude control thrusters two hours before burn to eliminate any accumulated momentum

- Detailed timeline: -35 pressurize tanks, -27 go to low-rate communications, ...

- Back to high-rate communications one hour after regaining comm. (High rate is 3500 times faster than low-rate.)

- Expect batteries to drop about 10% during Mars occultation.

- Able to save 60 pounds of fuel during cruise, translates to another seven months of operations. Will use most of the fuel today.

- All engines together only have about 250 pounds of thrust.

- 22:30 is nominal burn time, can go under by 12% or over by 28% and still have a tolerable orbit. (Thought he said 22:30, but must be closer to 27:30.)

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