Controllers are still activating Curiosity's instrument package, and all antennas that will beam back data to JPL "work perfectly, " mission manager Jennifer Trosper said Wednesday.
She has her headset on and is in the middle of trying to sell an indifferent manager at a big insurance company on the idea of buying a very expensive database software package.
Billionaire Abramovich, who agreed a compensation package with Scolari and his backroom staff on Tuesday, was instrumental in Hiddink's appointment as Russia manager in 2006, and the pair have since maintained close ties.