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Wary NASA Delays Kepler Mission Monday, March 02, 2009 - Iddo Genuth Home >> Headlines >> Space   
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Following a somewhat dour week for the U.S. space program, which resulted in the complete loss of NASA’s climate-monitoring Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite, wary mission controllers have delayed the imminent launch of the $600 million Kepler space telescope. Originally scheduled to launch on March 5 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the Kepler mission has now been pushed back to around March 06 in order to allow engineers to carry out extra checks on the Delta 2 r (source: thetechherald.com)
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