Solar Pressure May Help Kepler Return To Planet-Hunting Duties

Zothecula writes "Last August, it looked as if NASA's Kepler space telescope was as good as scrap due to the failure of its attitude control system. Now the space agency proposes what it calls the K2 mission concept, which may fix the problem by using the Sun to regain attitude control and allow Kepler to resume its search for extrasolar planets."

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Re:Why would much budget be needed, I wonder

[Lumpy]

Actually they did. Ceasar cut all funding on wheels and called them a failure. Luckily private chariot companies picked up where they left off and created the booming chariot industry that carried Rome from it's beginning, to burning and beyond.