8 years ago
NASA has recovered the Kepler Space Telescope from 'emergency mode'
The planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope has been returned to stable condition just days after it slipped into "emergency mode," according to NASA. Team engineers were able to point the spacecraft's communications antenna toward Earth on Sunday morning and have since been downloading data that will tell them exactly what went wrong. The Kepler Space Telescope is 75 million miles away from Earth, so it takes 13 minutes for...
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