NASA's planet hunting Kepler telescope launched March 6 (3/6/9). Before it can find planets, its protective dust cover had to be jettisoned. that has been done, NASA announced yesterday.
"The cover released and flew away exactly as we designed it to do," said Kepler Project Manager James Fanson of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. (area code 818=17) "This is a critical step toward answering a question that has come down to us across 100 generations of human history" are there other planets like Earth, or are we alone in the galaxy?"
Its 42 charge-coupled devices (CCDs) will detect slight dips in starlight
The telescope's oval-shaped dust cover, measuring 1.7 meters by 1.3 meters (=17 x 13 decimeters)
At 10:13 (October 13) p.m. ET on April 7 (4/7/2009), engineers at Kepler's mission operations center at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, Colo., (area code 303) sent commands to pass an electrical current through a "burn wire" to break the wire and release a latch holding the cover closed.
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2 comments:
Man, there's gonna be a lot of 11 11's this year...
Awesome find! Your notes help, too. They're really going crazy with these numbers in the timing, locations and dimensions of their equipment..
3/6/9... 3+3=6, 3x3=9... 369 is also in the Solfeggio frequency range (and when Watchmen was released)
Definitely read Dark Mission by Hoagland and Bara, T. Lots of interesting questions raised.
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