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re: NASA’s Kepler space telescope is running out of fuel

Posted on 3/22/18 at 1:32 pm to
Posted by OMLandshark
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Posted on 3/22/18 at 1:32 pm to
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Shouldn’t NASA be able to pretty accurately guess how much fuel has been burned? Or is this thing just kind of doing whatever it wants?



You'd be shocked how much these probes vary from how much power they consume. The Voyager probes are still active, and no one thought they'd last past the 80s.
Posted by jmarto1
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Posted on 3/22/18 at 1:43 pm to
The voyagers are marvels of engineering
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