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Kepler Mission Manager Update

05.21.2013 - Following the apparent failure of reaction wheel 4, engineers were successful at transitioning the spacecraft to Point Rest State.
Kepler Mission Manager Update

05.15.2013 - At our semi-weekly contact on Tuesday, May 14, 2013, we found the Kepler spacecraft once again in safe mode.
NASA Hosts Kepler Spacecraft Status Teleconference Today

05.15.2013 - 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.
Kepler Mission Manager Update

05.09.2013 - During a scheduled contact, engineers discovered Kepler was in a self-protective mode. The spacecraft returned to science data collection on May 6.
Kepler Mission Manager Update

04.29.2013 - The team recently completed a monthly science data download, marking the successful completion of Quarter 16 flight operations.
Kepler Discovers Its Smallest 'Habitable Zone' Planets

04.18.2013 - NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone."
NASA Hosts Media Briefing to Discuss Kepler Discovery

04.15.2013 - NASA will host a news briefing at 2 p.m. EDT, Thursday, April 18, to announce new discoveries from the agency's Kepler mission.
Gravity-Bending Find Leads to Kepler Meeting Einstein

04.04.2013 - The light of a red star is warped and magnified by its dead-star companion, as detected by NASA's Kepler space telescope.
Kepler Mission Manager Update

03.29.2013 - 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.
Kepler Mission Manager Update

03.05.2013 - Since returning to science data collection on Jan. 27, 2013, after a 10-day precautionary wheel rest safe mode, the spacecraft has been performing well and continues to make science observations.
Kepler Mission Discovers Tiny Planet System

02.20.2013 - Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star similar to our sun.
Kepler Data Suggest Earth-size Planets May Be Next Door

02.06.2013 - Astronomers estimate that six percent of red dwarfs have a temperate Earth-size planet, as close as 13 light-years away.
Kepler Mission Manager Update: Kepler Returns to Science Mode

01.29.2013 - After a "wheel rest" safe mode that began on January 17, 2013, NASA's Kepler spacecraft returned to science data collection.
Kepler Mission Manager Update

01.17.2013 - Kepler has completed two science data downloads since the last update, successfully completing Quarter 15 flight operations and beginning Quarter 16.
At Least One in Six Stars Has an Earth-sized Planet

01.10.2013 - A new analysis of Kepler data shows that about 17 percent of stars have an Earth-sized planet in an orbit closer than Mercury.
National Academy of Sciences Honors Kepler Scientist

01.07.2013 - William Borucki, principal investigator for the Kepler mission at the agency's Ames Research Center, is recipient of the 2013 Henry Draper Medal.
Kepler Discovers 461 New Planet Candidates

01.07.2013 - Four of the potential new planets are less than twice the size of Earth and orbit in the "habitable zone," where liquid water might exist.
Billions and Billions of Planets

01.03.2013 - Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler mission estimate that at least 100 billion planets populate the galaxy.
Kepler Mission Manager Update

11.20.2012 - After discovering the spacecraft was not collecting precision data, Kepler engineers succeeded in returning the spacecraft to science data collection.
Kepler Completes Prime Mission, Begins Extended Mission

11.14.2012 - Today NASA marks two milestones in the search for planets like Earth.

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