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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.
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NASA Joins 'Around the World in 80 Telescopes'
04.02.09 - A collection of NASA missions will be involved in a live event Friday, April 3, that will allow the public to get an inside look at how these missions are run.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, April 2, 2009
04.02.09 - Flight controllers have transitioned Kepler out of its low-activity safe mode and have powered on its main instrument, the photometer.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, March 30, 2009
03.30.09 - Engineers have determined the cause of Kepler's entry into limited safe mode last week, and are preparing to return the spacecraft to normal operations.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, March 26, 2009
03.26.09 - Scientists have analyzed "dark" calibration data taken by Kepler with its dust cover on, and have concluded that the telescope's focal-plane array, the area where light is focused, is behaving as expected.
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Mission Manager Update, March 21, 2009
03.21.09 - Kepler is now 1.5 million kilometers (930,000 miles) from Earth.
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Mission Manager Update, March 18, 2009
03.18.09 - Engineers are continuing the process of calibrating Kepler's photometer in the dark, with its dust cover on.
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Mission Manager Update, March 16, 2009
03.16.09 - Kepler is now more than 1 million kilometers (620,000 miles) from Earth, drifting away at the rate of about 1 kilometer per second.
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Kepler Mission Manager Report - Mar. 12, 2009
03.12.09 - Kepler's science instrument, called a photometer, was powered on by flight controllers and will be calibrated over the next several weeks.
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Kepler Mission Manager Report - Mar. 11, 2009
03.11.09 - After Kepler vaulted into the heavens on a column of thunder Friday March 6, it quickly sent its first communications to Earth via NASA's Deep Space Network.
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NASA's Kepler Mission Rockets to Space in Search of Other Earths
03.07.09 - NASA's Kepler mission successfully launched into space from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II at 10:49 p.m. EST, Friday.
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Five Things About Kepler
03.05.09 - Here are some quick facts about the Kepler mission, scheduled to launch March 6, 2009.
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NASA's Kepler Mission Set For Launch
03.05.09 - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Kepler mission to seek other Earth-like planets is undergoing final preparations for liftoff Friday, March 6, from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The spacecraft launch aboard a Delta II rocket has two windows of opportunity Friday, from 10:49 to 10:52 p.m. and 11:13 to 11:16 p.m. EST.
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NASA Ames Invites News Media for Live Broadcast of Kepler Launch
03.04.09 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., -- News media and the public are invited to observe the live televised broadcast of the countdown and launch of the Kepler mission on Friday, March 6, 2009 in the Exploration Center at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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Long Journey to Liftoff
03.03.09 - William Borucki has been working on the ideas behind the Kepler mission for over two decades.
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NASA'S Kepler Telescope to Launch Aboard Delta II Rocket
02.26.09 - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Launch of NASA's Kepler telescope is targeted for no earlier than Friday, March 6, from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. There are two launch windows, from 10:49 - 10:52 p.m. and 11:13 - 11:16 p.m. EST.
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Milwaukee Native Helps NASA Search for Earth-Size Planets
02.25.09 - David Koch, the deputy principal investigator for the NASA Kepler Mission, has spent his life building things.
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NASA Tradition Continues from Generation to Generation
02.25.09 - In the 1960s, two employees from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) met on a blind date. The couple eventually married and had twin identical boys one of whom has grown up to be the lead for the data analysis group of NASA's Kepler Mission - Jon Jenkins of NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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NASA's Kepler Mission to Seek Other Earths
02.19.09 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA's Kepler spacecraft is now at the launch pad and will soon begin a journey to search for worlds that could potentially host life.
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NASA Kepler Launch International Media Accreditation Ends Feb. 5
01.27.09 - The launch of NASA's Kepler telescope, the first mission capable of finding Earth-size planets around other stars, is scheduled for March 5 at 7:48 p.m. Pacific Time (10:48 p.m. Eastern time), from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.