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Space 'scope Kepler is running in emergency mode and NASA doesn't know why. Kepler's status was discovered during a routine communication, NASA said. The agency announced a spacecraft emergency on April 9, and says it believes Kepler entered emergency mode around 36 hours before that. Declaring a spacecraft emergency gives …

  1. harmjschoonhoven

    Kepler's second mission

    Kepler, launched March 6 2009, was cripled in august 2013. A cat may have 9 lifes, a space telescope gets two or three.

    Latest news can be found here.

  2. Marcus Fil
    Alien

    Shutter Control?

    Obviously not ours ;-)

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