Looks like we may not get to see CONTOUR make it's burn next month after all. Here are the results of a burn that just happened: CONTOUR's OCM6 maneuver took place as planned at 12:02 UT yesterday, July 27. Doppler residuals of the spacecraft's radio signals during the burn, analyzed at JPL's Multi-Mission Navigation Center, showed that either the burn delivered 1.8% more delta-V than expected, or if its size were perfect, then there was a 0.3 deg. pointing error, both quite reasonable and good performance for such a burn. We'll learn what the errors were once a good post-burn orbit is determined from the tracking data, and compared with the pre-burn orbit. However, nobody on the ground saw the burn. Gordon Garradd, at Loomberah, N.S.W., Australia, made astrometric CCD observations of CONTOUR, reaching to about mag. 16 with his exposures, and recorded the spacecraft, at about mag. 14.5, for several minutes around the time of the maneuver, and saw no noticeable brightening during the burn. The fuel is designed to burn cleanly, leaving few byproducts that would ionize in sunlight, so the relatively small (two 5-pound) thrusters apparantly just were not bright relative to sunlight reflected from the spacecraft.