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Kepler Recovered from Emergency and Stable (nasa.gov)

Posted by msmash on from the this-is-awesome dept.

Here's an exciting update on NASA's Kepler, which entered "emergency mode" last week. An anonymous reader points us to a press release on NASA's official website: Mission operations engineers have successfully recovered the Kepler spacecraft from Emergency Mode (EM). On Sunday morning, the spacecraft reached 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 mission has 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. This checkout is anticipated to continue through the week. Earth-based observatories participating in Campaign 9 will continue to make observations as Kepler's health check continues. The K2 observing opportunity for Campaign 9 will end on July 1, when the galactic center is no longer in view from the vantage point of the spacecraft.

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  1. Missing information by 110010001000 · · Score: -1, Troll

    There is tons of missing information in the summary: what are the races and genders of the people involved? Without this information how can we form an opinion about this? I propose for the new "SJW" Slashdot we require that complete (cis)gender and race information about all participants of stories be released.

    1. Re:Missing information by 110010001000 · · Score: -1, Troll

      No, we are talking about the hard work of many PEOPLE who have worked tirelessly to bring this spacecraft back from its error state. We need to know if these people were working in a safe space? Was there microaggressive behavior during this stressful period? Did it create a toxic environment? These are all important issues you missed in your summary.

    2. Re:Missing information by 110010001000 · · Score: -1, Troll

      I don't think you understand: there were many people ON THE GROUND who worked to get the spacecraft up and running. From the summary you called them "mission operations engineers". You need to find out more about these people ASAP. That is what is missing from this summary. I hope that makes it more clear. Thanks.

  2. Re:What OS? by 110010001000 · · Score: 0, Troll

    You are asking technical questions on a non-technical site. There are more important questions to ask.

  3. Bummed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I wished it would crash on Earth on some orphanage and killed a lot of children and shit.