<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Kepler Exoplanet Hunter Spacecraft at Risk</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">NASA's
$600 million Kepler Space Telescope, a leading player in the hunt for
Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars, has been sidelined by
problems with stabilizing gyroscopic reaction wheels needed to hold the
spacecraft and its 95-megapixel camera precisely on target, NASA
managers said Wednesday.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/2013/05/kepler-exoplanet-hunter-spacecraft-at.html">http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/2013/05/kepler-exoplanet-hunter-spacecraft-at.html</a></div><div> </div><div>gaw<br><br></div><div>Glenn A. Walsh, Project Director,<br>Friends of the Zeiss < http://friendsofthezeiss.org ><br>Electronic Mail - < siderostat1989@yahoo.com ><br>SpaceWatchtower Blog: < http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/ ><br></div></div></body></html>