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Kepler Mission Manager Update, July 23, 2009
07.23.09 - Kepler remains in its science attitude and Earth-trailing, helio-centric orbit.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, July 7, 2009
07.07.09 - On July 4, Kepler passed a point 12,500,000 kilometers (7,767,140 miles) from Earth.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, June 19, 2009
06.19.09 - Kepler is more than 10,700,000 kilometers (about 6,600,00 miles) from Earth and continues its planned drift-away orbit.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, June 9, 2009
06.09.09 - Kepler is nearing 10 million kilometers from Earth, and will pass that mark on June 12.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, May 29, 2009
05.29.09 - Kepler remains safe and stable in its "drift-away" heliocentric orbit.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, May 14, 2009
05.14.09 - Following a successful readiness review, Kepler began its search for planets around other stars on May 12, 2009.
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Kepler Mission Begins Search
05.13.09 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. NASA's Kepler spacecraft has begun its search for other Earth-like worlds. The mission, which launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on March 6, will spend the next three-and-a-half years staring at more than 100,000 stars for telltale signs of planets.
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Let the Planet Hunt Begin
05.13.09 - NASA's Kepler spacecraft has begun its search for other Earth-like worlds.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, May 7, 2009
05.07.09 - Kepler is now more than six million kilometers (3.7 million miles) from Earth.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, May 1, 2009
05.01.09 - Kepler's calibration data collection is drawing to a close.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, April 23, 2009
04.23.09 - The Kepler telescope's focus has been successfully optimized.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, April 20, 2009
04.20.09 - The Kepler science team has decided that further refinement of the telescope's focus would significantly improve the mission's science return.
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Mission Manager Update, April 17, 2009
04.17.09 - Kepler's "first light" image taken the day after cover release is now available to the public.
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Kepler Captures First Views of Planet-Hunting Territory
04.16.09 - NASA's Kepler mission has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth.
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Mission Manager Update, April 13, 2009
04.13.09 - Up until a few days ago, NASA's Deep Space Network stations have had their Ka-band radio receivers cross polarized to the spacecraft radio transmitter.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, April 8, 2009
04.08.09 - The dust cover was successfully jettisoned from the front of the telescope last evening at about 7:18 p.m. PDT.
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Dust Cover Jettisoned From NASA's Kepler Telescope
04.07.09 - Engineers have successfully ejected the dust cover from NASA's Kepler telescope, a spaceborne mission soon to begin searching for worlds like Earth.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, April 7, 2009
04.06.09 - All of the technical and programmatic reviews leading to the release of the dust cover from Kepler are now successfully completed.
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Kepler Dust Cover Poised for Removal
04.07.09 - The dust cover on NASA's Kepler spacecraft is scheduled to be ejected tonight, no earlier than 6:30 p.m. Pacific Time, with a backup opportunity tomorrow evening.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, April 2, 2009
04.06.09 - Flight controllers have transitioned Kepler out of its low-activity safe mode and have powered on its main instrument, the photometer.