Kepler Gets A New Lease On Life

NASA managers have cleared the Kepler extra-solar planet-finder for another two years of operation, following presentations that convinced them that the space telescope can generate useful data with only two functioning reaction control wheels. Kepler, which finds planets orbiting other stars by...

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