NASA's Ailing Planet-Hunting Kepler Spacecraft Moves Closer to New Mission

A proposed new mission for Kepler — whose original exoplanet hunt stalled this past May when the second of its four orientation-maintaining reaction wheels failed — has advanced to a NASA vetting stage called "senior review."



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