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Kepler Guest Observer Program

Kepler Data Acquisition and Release Timeline

Quarter Period1
Data Archived2
End of proprietary data period3
Cycle
Quarter
Start
Stop
Dropped
GO
Engineering
Sc. Team
Planets
 0
2009/05/02
2009/05/11
2009/10/15
2009/10/15
2010/10/15
2010/10/15
2010/07/15
 1
2009/05/12
2009/06/18
2009/10/15
2009/10/15
2010/10/15
2010/10/15
2010/07/15
1
 2
2009/06/18
2009/09/17
2010/01/15
2010/01/15
2011/01/15
2011/01/15
2011/01/15
2011/07/15
1
 3
2009/09/17
2009/12/17
2010/04/15
2010/04/15
2011/04/15
2011/04/15
2011/04/15
2012/07/15
1
 4
2009/12/17
2010/03/22
2010/07/15
2010/07/15
2011/07/15
2011/07/15
2011/07/15
2012/07/15
1
 5
2010/03/22
2010/06/24
2010/10/15
2010/10/15
2011/10/15
2011/10/15
2011/10/15
2013/07/15
2
 6
2010/06/24
2010/09/23
2011/01/15
2011/01/15
2012/01/15
2012/01/15
2012/01/15
2013/07/15
2
 7
2010/09/23
2010/12/22
2011/04/15
2011/04/15
2012/04/15
2012/04/15
2012/04/15
2013/11/06
2
 8
2010/12/22
2011/03/28
2011/07/15
2011/07/15
2012/07/15
2012/07/15
2012/07/15
2013/11/06
2
 9
2011/03/28
2011/06/27
2011/10/15
2011/10/15
2012/10/15
2012/10/15
2012/10/15
2013/11/06

1Quarterly roll dates are nominal. For the sake of effciency and maximizing data, instrument or spacecraft operations can result in rolls occuring up to 14 days before the nominal start date.
2Guest Observers and the science team have access to their data on and after these dates.
3Kepler data will be publicly available on and after these dates.

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Last Updated: Nov 5, 2009
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