--- title: NASA’s Kepler Fixed After Going Into Emergency Mode in Space description: NASA scientists have fixed one of its spacecrafts after it went into emergency mode, the first "anomalous" event of its kind in seven years. canonical: https://time.com/4288466/nasa-kepler-emergency-mode/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-11T14:32:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-15T02:29:55.000Z article:section: Science og:title: NASA’s Kepler Fixed After Going Into Emergency Mode In Space og:description: Scientists are trying to repair it from far away og:url: https://time.com/4288466/nasa-kepler-emergency-mode/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4aed0a73a9636ce1/69888e830b72e324056e8e5d/nasa-kepler-spacecraft-deep-space.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2500 og:image:height: 1406 og:image:alt: nasa-kepler-spacecraft-deep-space og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: NASA’s Kepler Fixed After Going Into Emergency Mode In Space twitter:description: Scientists are trying to repair it from far away twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4aed0a73a9636ce1/69888e830b72e324056e8e5d/nasa-kepler-spacecraft-deep-space.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # NASA’s Kepler Spacecraft Fixed After Going Into Emergency Mode in Deep Space > Sponsored content. 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SpaceX resumed station deliveries for NASA on Friday, and in a double triumph, successfully landed its booster rocket on an ocean platform for the first time._  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Updated: Dec 15, 2023 2:29 AM UTCPublished: Apr 11, 2016 2:32 PM UTC  NASA  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Updated: Dec 15, 2023 2:29 AM UTCPublished: Apr 11, 2016 2:32 PM UTC NASA scientists have [repaired](http://www.nasa.gov/feature/mission-manager-update-kepler-recovered-from-emergency-and-stable) one of its spacecrafts after it [went into emergency mode](http://www.nasa.gov/feature/mission-manager-update-kepler-spacecraft-in-emergency-mode), the first “anomalous” event of its kind in its seven years in space. The space agency said its Kepler spacecraft last week kicked into emergency mode. Long-distance efforts on Earth to fix it from nearly 75 million miles away had been slow, mission manager Charlie Sobeck said in a statement, but engineers successfully recovered it Sunday when it reached a stable state. The space telescope was launched in 2009 to survey a portion of the Milky Way galaxy in search planets outside Earth’s solar system. Since then, Kepler has detected nearly [5,000 exoplanets](http://time.com/3641539/nasa-kepler-planet/?iid=sr-link2) orbiting stars beyond the Sun, as well as [two supernovae](http://time.com/4269247/star-exploding-video-gif/), NASA says. **Read More:** [_This Is How NASA Fixed a Telescope Currently in Orbit_](http://time.com/3643896/kepler-planets-repair/?iid=sr-link1) The spacecraft was in “good health” and operating well during NASA’s last regular contact with it on April 4, Sobeck said. 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