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Mission Manager Updates

Updates from Kepler Mission Manager - Roger Hunter

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Johannes Kepler

His Life, His Laws and Times

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News and Features

A diagram of the Kepler spacecraft showing the location of two of the four reaction wheels that control the pointing accuracy of the vehicle.

Kepler Mission Manager Update

Following the apparent failure of reaction wheel 4, engineers were successful at transitioning the spacecraft to Point Rest State.

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A timeline of Kepler discoveries with artist concept images.

Kepler Mission Manager Update

At our semi-weekly contact on Tuesday, May 14, 2013, we found the Kepler spacecraft once again in safe mode.

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NASA Hosts Kepler Spacecraft Status Teleconference ...

NASA will host a news teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT, today, May 15, to discuss the status of the agency's Kepler Space Telescope.

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Kepler Mission Manager Update

During a scheduled contact, engineers discovered Kepler was in a self-protective mode. The spacecraft returned to science data collection on May 6.

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Kepler Mission Manager Update

The team recently completed a monthly science data download, marking the successful completion of Quarter 16 flight operations.

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Artist's conceptions of the newly discovered planets shown in a row next to Earth to illustrate their relative sizes.

Kepler Discovers Its Smallest 'Habitable Zone' Planets

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone."

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NASA Hosts Media Briefing to Discuss Kepler Discovery

NASA will host a news briefing at 2 p.m. EDT, Thursday, April 18, to announce new discoveries from the agency's Kepler mission.

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This artist's concept depicts a dense, dead star called a white dwarf

Gravity-Bending Find Leads to Kepler Meeting Einstein

The light of a red star is warped and magnified by its dead-star companion, as detected by NASA's Kepler space telescope.

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Kepler Mission Manager Update

The spacecraft continues to operate efficiently and the science team has had a chance to examine the high rate data that was downlinked on March 6-7.

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Kepler Mission Manager Update

Since returning to science data collection on Jan. 27, 2013, after a 10-day precautionary wheel rest safe mode, the spacecraft has been performing ...

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