Kepler Mirror Arrives at Ball Aerospace for Test and Integration

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LJK — 8/9/2006 9:51:57 PM (archived)

Kepler Mirror Arrives at Ball Aerospace for Test and Integration

Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 09, 2006

The largest optical mirror ever built for a mission beyond Earth's orbit has arrived at Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. for environmental testing and spacecraft integration. NASA's Kepler mission, with a field of view 70,000 times greater than the Hubble Space Telescope, will attempt to detect Earth-like planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system.

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Kepler_Mirror_Arrives_at_Ball_Aerospace_for_Test_and_Integration_999.html

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