Friday, officials announced that the Aeronautics and Space Administration, known as the US (NASA) plans to bring life to the Kepler space telescope Hunter planets assigning a new task to him after he caused a problem in the GPS device in the referred to retirement last year.
The Kepler telescope has been launched in 2009 to search for Earth-sized planets orbiting around stars, convenient and there are water, a prerequisite for life.
Increasingly, Kepler scientists analyze the data in search of a match for the planet Earth, but they already added 962 planet stressing planet and 3845 candidate for the list, which includes 1713 uncovered a planet outside the solar system.
Last year and Kepler has the ability to stare of a stable position after the second broken wheel from four wheels concentration, while three wheels need to be able to accurately positioning.
Charlie wrote Sobek Kepler deputy project manager in a report published by the location of Kepler-mail saying that there is a happy news issued from the headquarters of the Department of Aviation and Space, that NASA "has passed the two-wheel mode operation of the telescope."
It is scheduled to start monitoring the first cases of the new campaign, called (K-2) on the thirtieth of May / May of this.
Engineers developed a design allows the use of pressure caused by the sun light to make the telescope keeps Bhetwasenh. Nevertheless, the Kepler will never be able to be stabilized sufficiently him can capture the smallest of the small planets cross references.
The NASA Kepler project cost is currently about $ 18 million annually, and spins the telescope in orbit, about 64 million miles from Earth.
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