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kepler wasn't built that long ago, as these things go. and ball aerospace which designed and built it is already designing and building an almost identical spac
by sigstoat 13y ago
kepler wasn't built that long ago, as these things go. and ball aerospace which designed and built it is already designing and building an almost identical spacecraft for the b612 foundation. so of all the spacecraft you might want to duplicate, kepler would be a really easy one at the moment.
- CamperBob2 13y agoInteresting, I'd never heard of B612. So they're sufficiently well-funded to commission a $500M Kepler-class probe?
- sigstoat 13y agolast i'd heard they were still trying to get more silicon valley bigwigs funding it. ball was treating them as a sufficiently "real" customer that it was talking to subcontractors about the mission, but i hadn't heard about any big checks for hardware being cut.