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March 11, 2016

NASA's K2 mission: Kepler second chance to shine
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 11, 2016
The engineers huddled around a telemetry screen, and the mood was tense. They were watching streams of data from a crippled spacecraft more than 50 million miles away - so far that even at the speed of light, it took nearly nine minutes for a signal to travel to the spacecraft and back. It was late August 2013, and the group of about five employees at Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado, was waiting for NASA's Kepler space telescope to reveal whether it would live or die. A severe malfunction had ... read more

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