Artist's conception of Kepler. Credits: NASA

NASA is hosting a media teleconference on the status of the Kepler space telescope today, Oct. 30, at 3 p.m. EDT.

The participants are:

• Paul Hertz, Astrophysics division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington
• Charlie Sobeck, project system engineer at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley
• William Borucki, retired Kepler principal investigator
• Jessie Dotson, Kepler project scientist at Ames
• Padi Boyd, project scientist for NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland

Media who would like to participate in the teleconference should e-mail their name, affiliation and telephone number to Felicia Chou at felicia.chou@nasa.gov no later than 2 p.m. EDT.

Questions can be submitted via Twitter during and after the teleconference using the hashtag #askNASA.

The teleconference audio will also be streamed live at:

http://www.nasa.gov/live

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Press Contacts

Felicia Chou
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0257
felicia.chou@nasa.gov

Alison Hawkes
Ames Research Center, California’s Silicon Valley
650-604-4789
alison.hawkes@nasa.gov

Calla Cofield
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-393-1821
calla.e.cofield@jpl.nasa.gov

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