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| NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Probe |
| NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Probe Out Of Danger
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 12-April-2016
5:28:12 AM |
| In a good news for astronomers, NASA engineers have successfully recovered the planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft from emergency mode (EM).
The spacecraft is now in a stable state with the communication antenna pointed toward Earth, enabling telemetry and historical event data to be downloaded to the ground.
The spacecraft is operating in its lowest fuel-burn mode, the US space agency said in a statement.
The NASA team has also cancelled the spacecraft emergency, returning the "Deep Space Network" ground communications to normal scheduling.
Once data is on the ground, the team will thoroughly assess all on board systems to ensure the spacecraft is healthy enough to return to science mode and begin the K2 mission's microlensing observing campaign called "Campaign 9".
Earth-based observatories participating in "Campaign 9" will continue to make observations as Kepler's health check continues.
During a scheduled contact on April 7, mission operations engineers discovered that the Kepler spacecraft was in the emergency mode - the lowest operational mode which is fuel intensive.
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