The lifetime of Kepler, the great exoplanet finding machine, may be cut prematurely short if efforts to save a balky reaction wheel fall short:
- Kepler glitch suspends NASA’s search for new planets – sen.com
- Kepler Mission Manager Update – NASA
- Twitter / mrtommyb: “To be clear, we are resting the spacecraft as a precaution. There is no evidence to suggest that a reaction wheel failure is imminent.”
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