Launch of Kepler via Delta II Rocket on 03/07/09 (Full launch to SECO-1)

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:21:01 GMT

The Kepler telescope launched aboard a Delta II rocket on March 3rd, 2009 at 3:49am UTC. The Kepler Mission will use a space photometer developed by NASA to search for Earth-like planets orbiting other stars. It will observe the brightness of over 100,000 stars over 3.5 years to detect periodic transits of a star by its planets (the transit method). The mission is named in honor of Johannes Kepler. Kepler is a mission under NASA's Discovery Program of low-cost, focused science missions. NASA's Ames Research Center is the home organization of the science principal investigator and is responsible for the ground system development, mission operations and science data analysis. Kepler mission development is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. is responsible for developing the Kepler flight system.

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Pictures of Mercury, HST back online and the NGLLC - #029

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:58:02 GMT

In the news we have new images of Mercury, the Hubble Space Telescope is back online and the Venezuela space program. Main topic if of course the 2008 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge!

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Launch of Kepler via Delta II Rocket on 03/07/09 (Full launch to SECO-1)

Pictures of Mercury, HST back online and the NGLLC - #029