Houston We've Got A Problem: NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Spacecraft Is In Emergency Mode

TechTimes ^ | 4/9/16 | Catherine Cabral-Isabedra

[dragnet2]

And that’s right in our neighborhood. Recently we just got hit with a gravitational wave caused by two rotating black holes merging about 1.5 billion years ago. The cataclysmic detonation of energy released nearly more energy than all the objects in the universe. The wave was a space/time ripple moving at nearly the speed of light.

[Organic Panic]

What does nasa care? It is not their money and this does not help Muslims feel good about themselves.

[az_gila]

Not Houston. It’s Silicon Valley, CA we have a problem.

I hope they fix it. Even if it died today, they’ll be studying Kepler data for decades. The spacecraft has made lot of significant discoveries.

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Isn't it a little further East than Silicon Valley?

I think it was built in Boulder, CO.

[dragnet2]

NASA Ames Research Center is in CA, up near Silicon Valley/San Jose area.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Hot Tabasco]

Since the spacecraft is 75 million miles away

I guess sending a mechanic to fix it is out of the question.......