Analysis of science attitudes for K2 planet hunter mission

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited === NASA designed the Kepler spacecraft to detect extrasolar planets, but after several successful years, with many new discoveries, two out of four reaction wheels failed. NASA repurposed Kepler to continue science under the new mission, K2. Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kinzbrunner, Eric S.
Other Authors: Karpenko, Mark
Published: Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/45207