in trouble. Is NASA will manage to fix it?
Yesterday, NASA announcedinformation that Kepler telescope, space planet hunter, is faced with failure. Is this the end of his mission
Kepler lost gyroscopic system that positions it. This means that it is uncontrollable and may not lead to their precise study.
telescope is relatively new. He flew into space in 2009 and ever since has been looking so great effect. exoplanets and therefore the planets located outside our solar system.
So far, Kepler has discovered 130 planets, and about 2700 onwards the potential waiting for confirmation of its existence. The instrument is designed to observe 100 thousand. stars and record periodic declines in their brightness, which may indicate that the star has a planet.
failure occurred last Tuesday, when the second of the wheels to stabilize Kepler ceased to function. – This is not good news for the mission. So far, everything worked perfectly, and the results were even better than expected – says the Deputy Head of Mission, Charles Sobeck from NASA.
telescope orbits about 64 million miles from Earth. It’s too far away to send a repair mission there. – Do not want to even consider this mission to be complete – said John Grunsfeld, NASA. – She was a complete success so far.
NASA is still trying to start stabilizing, but the engineers are also developing other alternative methods of operating the telescope. If the fully successful, NASA will try to take advantage of its flagship instrument to other observations. Discussions are ongoing, to which Kepler could be useful.
– The mission was scheduled for four years and so durable. She brought us a lot of data – said William Borucki, chief scientist of the mission. – I would be happy if he could work for the next four years, because we would have even more data and have found even more small planets. But we have a lot – he added.
Kepler lost gyroscopic system that positions it. This means that it is uncontrollable and may not lead to their precise study.
telescope is relatively new. He flew into space in 2009 and ever since has been looking so great effect. exoplanets and therefore the planets located outside our solar system.
So far, Kepler has discovered 130 planets, and about 2700 onwards the potential waiting for confirmation of its existence. The instrument is designed to observe 100 thousand. stars and record periodic declines in their brightness, which may indicate that the star has a planet.
failure occurred last Tuesday, when the second of the wheels to stabilize Kepler ceased to function. – This is not good news for the mission. So far, everything worked perfectly, and the results were even better than expected – says the Deputy Head of Mission, Charles Sobeck from NASA.
telescope orbits about 64 million miles from Earth. It’s too far away to send a repair mission there. – Do not want to even consider this mission to be complete – said John Grunsfeld, NASA. – She was a complete success so far.
NASA is still trying to start stabilizing, but the engineers are also developing other alternative methods of operating the telescope. If the fully successful, NASA will try to take advantage of its flagship instrument to other observations. Discussions are ongoing, to which Kepler could be useful.
– The mission was scheduled for four years and so durable. She brought us a lot of data – said William Borucki, chief scientist of the mission. – I would be happy if he could work for the next four years, because we would have even more data and have found even more small planets. But we have a lot – he added.
(G / Yahoo)
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