Monday, 11 April 2016

Reprieve for NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft


CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — To astronomers’ relief, NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has won another reprieve. The spacecraft slipped into emergency mode last week nearly 75 million miles from Earth. Ground controllers managed to stabilize the probe Sunday, and NASA announced the good news Monday. Engineers still don’t know what went wrong and will study […]

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