Last year, it looked as though the Kepler space probe had nothing to look forward to but the scrap heap. After the failure of two of its reaction wheels, the unmanned spacecraft was incapable of maintaining the precision pointing needed to hunt planets beyond the Solar System. Now, however, NASA’s Kepler team has demonstrated that space telescope can still detect exoplanets thanks the K2 mission concept maneuver. .. Continue Reading Kepler demonstrates that it can still detect planets
Section: Space
Tags: Exoplanet, Kepler Mission, NASA, Space telescope, Spacecraft, Sunlight
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