| Kepler: First light observations |
Posted: April 16, 2009
Duration: 4 min 49 sec
The Kepler spacecraft has returned its first images of the star-rich sky in the Cygnus-Lyra region of our Milky Way galaxy. The NASA mission it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth. |  |
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| Kepler: Launch replay from UCS 23 |
Posted: March 7, 2009
Duration: 4 min 28 sec
The UCS 23 tracking camera site follows the Delta 2 rocket during its initial ascent away from Cape Canaveral with the Kepler spacecraft. (Replay includes live launch audio) |  |
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| Kepler: Launch replay from Patrick AFB |
Posted: March 7, 2009
Duration: 2 min 28 sec
A powerful tracking camera at Patrick Air Force Base follows the Delta 2 rocket during its initial ascent away from Cape Canaveral with the Kepler spacecraft. (Replay includes live launch audio) |  |
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| Kepler: Launch replay from KSC tracker |
Posted: March 7, 2009
Duration: 4 min 4 sec
A powerful tracking camera at the Kennedy Space Center follows the Delta 2 rocket during its initial ascent away from Cape Canaveral with the Kepler spacecraft. (Replay includes live launch audio) |  |
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| Kepler: Launch replay from pad camera |
Posted: March 7, 2009
Duration: 18 sec
This view of Kepler's blastoff atop a United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket comes from an engineering camera at Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 17. |  |
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| Kepler: Launch replay from tower camera |
Posted: March 7, 2009
Duration: 21 sec
This view of the Delta 2 rocket launching from Cape Canaveral carrying NASA's Kepler spacecraft was captured by an engineering camera mounted on the pad's umbilical tower. |  |
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| Kepler: Launch replay from Press Site 1 |
Posted: March 7, 2009
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
This view of the Kepler spacecraft launching aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket was captured by a camera at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Press Site 1 location. |  |
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| Kepler: Second replay from Trident Bluff |
Posted: March 7, 2009
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
The launch of the Delta 2 rocket with NASA's Kepler spacecraft as seen from the Trident Bluff location near the south edge of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. (Replay includes live launch audio) |  |
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| Kepler: Launch replay from Trident Bluff |
Posted: March 7, 2009
Duration: 54 sec
A tighter view of the launch as seen from the Trident Bluff location near the south edge of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. (Replay includes live launch audio) |  |
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| Kepler: NASA launch manager |
Posted: March 7, 2009
Duration: 4 min 16 sec
NASA launch manager Omar Baez reviews the countdown and ascent of the United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket that deployed the Kepler spacecraft on its journey away from Earth. |  |
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| Kepler: Spacecraft separation |
Posted: March 7, 2009
Duration: 2 min 31 sec
Telemetry relayed from a tracking station in Australia back to Cape Canaveral confirm a successful release of the Kepler spacecraft from the Delta 2 rocket's third stage to complete the launch. |  |
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| Kepler: NASA's science chief |
Posted: March 7, 2009
Duration: 7 min 37 sec
Ed Weiler, the associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, talks about the Kepler mission and the hunt for Earth-like planets in this interview just before liftoff.
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| Kepler: Full launch experience |
Posted: March 7, 2009
Duration: 19 min 38 sec
This longer-length movie captures the final portion of the launch countdown and follows the Delta 2 rocket's flight through arrival in the preliminary orbit carrying the Kepler observatory. |  |
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| Kepler: Liftoff of the Delta 2 rocket! |
Posted: March 7, 2009
Duration: 5 min 1 sec
NASA's Kepler planet-finder begins its mission to discover Earth-like worlds orbiting other stars in the galaxy, successfully launching at 10:49:57 p.m. EST aboard a Delta 2 rocket from Cape Canaveral. |  |
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| Kepler: Tower rollback |
Posted: March 7, 2009
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
The mobile service gantry at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's pad 17B is rolled away from the Delta 2 rocket in preparation for liftoff carrying the Kepler spacecraft. |  |
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| Kepler: Satellite campaign |
Posted: March 7, 2009
Duration: 9 min 4 sec
This narrated movie compiles the highlights of the Kepler planet-hunter observatory undergoing its pre-launch preparation campaign in Cape Canaveral, Florida. |  |
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| Kepler: Rocket campaign |
Posted: March 7, 2009
Duration: 8 min 5 sec
This narrated movie compiles the highlights from the Delta 2 rocket's pre-flight campaign at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's pad 17B in preparation to launch the Kepler spacecraft. |  |
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| Kepler: Science preview |
Posted: March 5, 2009
Duration: 38 min 22 sec
Scientists working on Kepler, NASA's first mission capable of detecting Earth-size planets around stars similar to our sun, preview the science objectives in this briefing held on the eve of launch.
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| Kepler: Pre-launch news conference |
Posted: March 5, 2009
Duration: 35 min 39 sec
Officials from NASA, United Launch Alliance, Ball Aerospace and the Air Force preview the flight of a Delta 2 rocket carrying the Kepler planet-finder during this pre-launch news conference held at Kennedy Space Center on March 5. |  |
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| Kepler: Craft bolted atop the Delta |
Posted: March 2, 2009
Duration: 6 min 49 sec
The Kepler spacecraft is hoisted into the gantry at Cape Canaveral's pad 17B and attached to the United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket on February 21. |  |
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