I went through my library and an endorsement on the late Richard P. Feynman's book " Surely You Are Joking Mr. Feynman !" reads: * There are two types of...
I have just been on the Kepler countdown clock and website. Only 1 day to go til' launch. I have emailed Dave Koch and wished the whole team luck for the...
Next is checkout and calibration of the Kepler instrument. This is called commissioning and will take approximately 45 days. After this Kepler will start, in...
I think it's amazing they actually got it in the air (or space, I mean). Well,let's hope it detects something, as somebody said in the news, "if they don't,...
... I hadn't fotgotten about this question, I just needed to think about this and do a bit of research before answering it. It needs to be stated that the...
It was indeed spectacular! I just got back from Florida where I watched the launch with a bunch of other Kepler team members from the pier at Jetty Park,...
Todd, Thanks for the insight from inside the Kepler team and the link to the launch. Must have been a fantastic sight to watch live! Good luck for the rest of...
2009 March 11. Mission Manager's Update After NASA's Kepler mission vaulted into the heavens on a column of thunder Friday March 6, it quickly sent its first...
2009 March 12. Mission Manager's Update—Kepler's science instrument, called a photometer, was powered on by flight controllers and will be calibrated over...
2009 March 13. Geocentric distance to the spacecraft on Mar 13 at 1400 UTC: 874,087 km RTLT=5.83 sec (round trip light time) 2.27 times the distance to the...
2009 March 16, Mission Manager Update—Kepler is now more than 1 million kilometers (620,000 miles) from Earth, drifting away at the rate of about 1 kilometer...
2009 March 17 14:00 UTC - Distance to Kepler: 1,244,000 km; 773,100 mi; 0.008 AU; 3.24 times the distance to the Moon. 2009 March 18. Mission Manager Update -...
2009 March 26. Mission Manager Update - Scientists have analyzed "dark" calibration data taken by Kepler with its dust cover on, and have concluded that the...
2009 March 30. Mission Manager Update - Engineers have determined the cause of Kepler's entry into limited safe mode last week, and are preparing to return the...
NOTE: The next major step for Kepler is the dust cover removal due for 7th April at the earliest. 2009 April 2. Mission Manager Update - Flight controllers...
The dust cover has been ejected from Kepler's telescope:- 2009 April 7 NEWS RELEASE: 2009-065 - DUST COVER JETTISONED FROM NASA'S KEPLER TELESCOPE Excerpt:...
Here is an interesting article where Michel Mayor claims that within 2 years ESO will have the capability of detecting Earth-sized planets in the habitable...
Hi, Some thoughts concerning SETI and the aliens. (Sorry for language... I'm Lithuanian). SETI program is enough problematic by my knowledge "about the aliens...
Hi, Sorry for my previous intervention with an "advertising" . So... some thoughts concerning SETI and the aliens for the "compensation" :) (Sorry for...
There is a media briefing by NASA on early kepler results. "WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media briefing on Thursday, Aug. 6, at 2 p.m. EDT, to discuss early...
HAT-P-7b, a planet discovered last year with Earth-based telescopes, was one of the targets on Kepler's commissioning target list. Not only was Kepler able to...
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