NASA managed to restore the Space Telescope, “Kepler” – RIA Novosti

WASHINGTON, April 25 – RIA Novosti. NASA managed to completely restore the Space Telescope, “Kepler”, which was interrupted in early April, said space agency.

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” Work “Kepler “resumed he again searches for exoplanets – planets outside our solar system,” – said the program manager Charles Sobek.

He said, “cause of a problem, which became known on April 8, is being studied.” “The nature of the problems is fleeting signs of events that led to a large number of alarms that have overloaded the system, causing the” Kepler “went to work in an emergency mode,” – said Sobek. He believes that “now, it seems, the telescope computer systems have coped with the problem”.

Telescope “Kepler”, specifically designed to search for extrasolar planets, was launched in May 2009. The device continuously monitors the stars in a small region of the sky near the constellation Cygnus and searched the planet, fixing the weak

fluctuations of the brightness of stars when planets pass on the disco lights. In May 2013, the telescope is out of order, but experts found a way to bring him back to active status and to continue his work in the mission K2.

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