Kepler Mission Manager Update, Feb. 7, 2011 | Synopsis

Kepler Mission Manager Update, Feb. 7, 2011

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The Kepler project team has recovered spacecraft from its Safe Mode event that occurred on Feb. 1, 2011. The spacecraft returned to science data collection after an outage of 64 hours. The likely cause was corrupt star tracker data that resulted in a false momentum alarm on the spacecraft. Fault protection software reacted properly in making the spacecraft safe until the project engineers could contact the spacecraft and review telemetry. An anomaly response team will continue to evaluate the telemetry to understand the root cause of the corrupt star tracker data and develop further mitigations. While conducting recovery of the spacecraft from the Safe Mode event, the project downloaded science data from the spacecraft's solid state recorder that was collected since Jan. 6. That data is now being routed to the Kepler Science Operations Center where it will be processed for the science team's evaluation.

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Kepler Mission Manager Update, Feb. 7, 2011

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Organization: Kepler Science Operations Center

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Kepler Mission Manager Update, Feb. 7, 2011

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The Kepler project team has recovered spacecraft from its Safe Mode event that occurred on Feb. 1, 2011.

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Full Content: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/keplerm-20110207.html

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