Reply to post: Re: Fuel? Why no solar panels?

Goodnight Kepler! NASA scientists lay the exoplanet expert to rest as it runs out of fuel

Scroticus Canis
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Re: Fuel? Why no solar panels?

Oh it has those too. Don't think they were running a mini genset for the electrics :)

With the electrically powered gyros bust they had to use fuel to point the comms at earth just to transfer the collected data, doubled the drain probably.

If they had used imperial gallons it would still have a little life left.

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