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First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Stanford University

Kepler Space Telescope Witnesses Problem

As per recently revealed information through NASA, it has been revealed that the Kepler space telescope has witnessed a problem. The failure, which took place in last week, occurred when one of the telescope's four reaction wheels stopped working.After ... [Published TopNews United States - May 21 2013]

Entities: Space Telescope, Scott Hubbard, Aeronautics, Stanford University

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

NASA plans to send spy telescope to Mars

US: The spy satellite that was donated to NASA in 2012 might be one of the next objects in line to be sent to Mars.The satellite was one of two that were built for a National Reconnaissance Office programme called Future Imagery Architecture. Unfortunately, ... [Published Sri Lanka Daily News - May 21 2013]

Entities: NASA, Alfred McEwen, Spectrometer

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

NASA

Stanford Professor And Former NASA Official Explains How NASA Might Revive the Kepler Space Telescope

NASA officials announced Wednesday, May 15, that the Kepler space telescope – the agency's primary instrument for detecting planets beyond our solar system – had suffered a critical failure and could soon be shut down permanently. ... [Published ScienceNewsline - May 20 2013]

Entities: NASA, Space Telescope, Solar System

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Kepler Space Telescope Stalled 40 Million Miles Away By Mechanical Trouble

NASA’s eye in the sky that looks for exoplanets is running into some mechanical trouble 40 million miles away.The Kepler space telescope looks for alien worlds by searching for the flickers of stars that dim slightly when planets pass across their faces. ... [Published International Business Times - May 19 2013]

Entities: Space Telescope, NASA, John Grunsfeld, Exoplanet

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Simon & Schuster

Darwin Einstein and sciences 5 greatest blunders

Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., tells the stories of five great scientific mistakes in his new book "Brilliant Blunders" (Simon & Schuster, May 14, 2013). These stories serve to show how even the smartest among ... [Published The Sydney News - May 16 2013]

Entities: Mario Livio, Space Telescope, Simon & Schuster

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Goddard Space Flight Center

First Part Of Webb Telescope's âEye...

Topics: Technology Internet, Space telescopes, Spacecraft, Spaceflight, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Hubble Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope, Goddard Space Flight Center, Space observatory, NASA RealWorld-InWorld Engineering ... [Published Red Orbit - May 16 2013]

Entities: NASA, James Webb Space Telescope, Space Telescope, Spacecraft, Goddard Space Flight Center

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

European Southern Observatory

Orion Photo Reveals Spectacular Fiery Ribbon

Tagsorion, Nebula, Fiery Ribbon, eso, European Southern ObservatoryA fiery ribbon of gas in the constellation Orion has been imaged like never before in a new photograph released on Wednesday by the European Southern Observatory (ESO).Orion is one of ... [Published ITechPost - May 16 2013]

Entities: European Southern Observatory, Wavelength, Molecular Cloud, Absolute Zero, Space Telescope

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 3 reports

More Insight on How NASA Might Revive the Kepler Space Telescope

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on TwitterArtst concept of the Kepler telescope in orbit. Credit: NASAThe future of NASA’s Kepler space telescope mission is in doubt, NASA announced yesterday, as it suffered a failure ... [Published Universe Today - May 16 2013]

Entities: Scott Hubbard, NASA, Space Telescope, Planetoid, Nancy Atkinson

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Spy Satellite to Head to Mars?

A spy satellite donated to NASA by the National Reconnaissance Office may be headed to Mars to study the red planet and its two moons. The space telescope is similar in size and appearance to the Hubble telescope, which was put into Earth orbit in 19 ... [Published ITechPost - May 16 2013]

Entities: NASA, National Reconnaissance Office, Hubble Space Telescope

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Matt’s Favorites: Cicadas, Netflix, Cool Satellites and More

What’s the latest and greatest from the wonderful, wacky world of science and technology? Sit back and relax, this will hurt less than watching the Red Wings last night…* Everything has its season, everything has its time. And for cicadas, the time is ... [Published CBS Detroit - May 16 2013]

Entities: Cicada, Netflix Inc, Google Inc

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Telescope "huge success" despite shut down

SDSU astronomer says Kepler Space Telescope a "huge success" despite problem that might end its mission. ... [Published U-T San Diego - May 16 2013]

Entities: Space Telescope

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 7 reports

We nearly lost Fermi: The problem of orbital debris

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has a near-collision with Cosmos 1805Image Gallery (7 images)Julie McEnery is NASA's Project Scientist for the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. When she checked her email on March 29, 2012, she was startled to find ... [Published Gizmag - May 02 2013]

Entities: Space Telescope, Communications Satellite, Solar Panels, Polar Orbit

Quotes

...years that the rings were about 30 feet thick, but based on the new images, scientists now think that they're more than 2 miles deep in some spots. "Isn't that the most outrageous thing you could imagine? It truly is like something out of science fiction" said Carolyn Porco, leader of the Cassini imaging team

Super-Intelligent 'Space Brains' Probably Don't Outnumber Humans [Published Huffington Post UK - 3 hours ago]

...University, was of the view that that photodetector of Kepler is having capacity to registers more than 100,000 stars and that too at a time. "Because this is a new operating mode of the spacecraft, the team will closely monitor the spacecraft, but no other immediate actions are planned" , said the Kepler team

Kepler Space Telescope Witnesses Problem [Published TopNews United States - May 21 2013]

..."His real blunder was to take it out, not to keep it in," Livio said. "The theory allowed him to put it in. We've since learned that everything the theory allows appears to be compulsory."

Top Five Scientific Blunders By Genius Scientists [Published ITechPost - May 19 2013]

...wouldn't call Kepler down and out just yet," NASA administrator John Grunsfeld said during a teleconference on Wednesday, according to Nature. But "we do need three wheels to do the exoplanet science."

Kepler Space Telescope Stalled 40 Million Miles Away By Mechanical Trouble [Published International Business Times - May 19 2013]

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Super-Intelligent 'Space Brains' Probably Don't... [Published Huffington Post UK - 3 hours ago]
Media Telecon on Cosmology & Planck Results [Published SpaceRef - 11 hours ago]
Report from the Starship Century Conference: Tu... [Published Planetary Society - 11 hours ago]
Merger of ancient galaxies could explain the or... [Published ArsTechnica - 18 hours ago]
Kepler Space Telescope Witnesses Problem [Published TopNews United States - May 21 2013]
Kepler?s uncertain future [Published Space Review - May 21 2013]
NASA plans to send spy telescope to Mars [Published Sri Lanka Daily News - May 21 2013]
Stanford Professor And Former NASA Official Exp... [Published ScienceNewsline - May 20 2013]
Planet-Hunting Kepler Telescope Suffers Malfunc... [Published Photonics - May 20 2013]
Top Five Scientific Blunders By Genius Scientists [Published ITechPost - May 19 2013]
Kepler Space Telescope Stalled 40 Million Miles... [Published International Business Times - May 19 2013]
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Webb Telescope Gets New Heat-Vision Eyes In Del... [Published ITechPost - May 18 2013]
How Kepler’s Pointing System Might Have Failed [Published IEEE Spectrum - May 17 2013]
Brilliant Science Blunders: Astrophysicist Mari... [Published Space.com - May 17 2013]
The trouble with Kepler [Published Harvard Gazette - May 16 2013]
Orion Photo Reveals Spectacular Fiery Ribbon [Published ITechPost - May 16 2013]
NASA, US Air Force Need More Robust Spaceflight... [Published Red Orbit - May 16 2013]
Darwin Einstein and sciences 5 greatest blunders [Published The Sydney News - May 16 2013]
Spy Satellite to Head to Mars? [Published ITechPost - May 16 2013]
More Insight on How NASA Might Revive the Keple... [Published Universe Today - May 16 2013]
First Part Of Webb Telescope's âEye... [Published Red Orbit - May 16 2013]
The 5 Greatest Scientific Blunders [Published LiveScience.com - May 16 2013]
Kepler Space Telescope May Be Finished [Published Outside The Beltway \| OTB - May 16 2013]
Space telescope on fritz, may be junked [Published Journal-Gazette - May 16 2013]
Ball Aerospace Garners Contract to Build Air Qu... [Published Individual.com - May 16 2013]
White House: Have faith ingovernment despite sc... [Published Lucianne.com - May 16 2013]
Matt’s Favorites: Cicadas, Netflix, Cool Satell... [Published CBS Detroit - May 16 2013]
Telescope "huge success" despite shut down [Published U-T San Diego - May 16 2013]
NASA Seeks High-Performance Spaceflight Computi... [Published Zecco - May 15 2013]

Blogs

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How Kepler’s Pointing System Might Have Failed [Published IEEE Spectrum - May 17 2013] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> As has been reported this week, the Kepler planet hunting space telescope, may have to end its mission earlier than hoped, due to the failure of the system that keeps it pointed in the right direction. ...
Kepler Space Telescope May Be Finished [Published Outside The Beltway \| OTB - May 16 2013] The Kepler Space Telescope, which has aided in the discovery of hundreds of planets orbiting other stars, may be permanently damaged: NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler telescope is broken, potentially jeopardizing the search for other worlds where life ...
NASA’s Kepler space telescope malfunction may e... [Published The Checkup - May 15 2013] The Kepler Space Telescope, the celebrated discoverer of worlds around distant stars, may have found its last planet. NASA announced Wednesday that the telescope, which to date has cost $600 million to build and operate, has lost the ability to point ...
NASA: Fermi’s Close Call with a Soviet Satellite [Published EquityJungle - v0.1 - May 12 2013] NASA scientists don’t often learn that their spacecraft is at risk of crashing into another satellite. But when Julie McEnery, the project scientist for NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, checked her email on March 29, 2012, she found herself facing ...
NASA: Fermi’s Close Call with a Soviet Satellite [Published The Big Picture Blog - May 12 2013] NASA scientists don’t often learn that their spacecraft is at risk of crashing into another satellite. But when Julie McEnery, the project scientist for NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, checked her email on March 29, 2012, she found herself facing ...

Audio/Video

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Space telescope reveals most detailed map of ea... [Published Reuters Video: Technology - Mar 21 2013]

Press Releases

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NASA Hosts Kepler Spacecraft Status Teleconfere... [Published Auto & Transportation - May 15 2013]
Largest Space Telescope Ever Closes its Eyes on... [Published Marketwire - Breaking News Releases - Apr 29 2013]
Photo Release -- South by Southwest Crowds Floc... [Published GlobeNewswire: Advertising News - Apr 02 2013]
NASA Extends Hubble Space Telescope Science Ope... [Published Auto & Transportation - Mar 22 2013]
Canada Stays at the Forefront of Space Telescop... [Published Marketwire - Breaking News Releases - Feb 25 2013]