Kepler stable after being rescued from Emergency Mode

Last Thursday, it was action stations for the Kepler mission team when, during a scheduled contact, it was discovered the Kepler spacecraft was in Emergency Mode (EM). NASA subsequently declared a spacecraft emergency, giving engineers priority access to its Deep Space Network ground-based communications system. The spacecraft was successfully recovered from EM on Sunday morning and is now in a stable state, however, it is still unclear what triggered the craft's brief departure from regular operations.

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Category: Space

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• Exoplanet
• Kepler Mission
• Spacecraft
• NASA
• Space telescope

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