Mission Manager Update, March 21, 2009
What Exactly IS the Boiling Point of New Jersey? by Sister72
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Kepler is now 1. 5 million kilometers (930,000 miles) from Earth. At that distance it takes a total amount of 10 seconds for a command sent from Earth, traveling at the speed of light, to reach the spacecraft and for a reply to show up back at Earth. Flight controllers call this the "round-trip light time," and take this time delay into account when commanding the spacecraft. Scientists are analyzing the first calibration information accumulated when the spacecraft's photometer was placed as far away from the sun as possible, while engineers are remaining to collect information at various temperatures. With the cover still closed over the front of the telescope, a lot of components are a bit warmer than they will be when the cover is launched.
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