NASA's Broken Planet-hunter Spacecraft Given Second Life

coondoggie writes "NASA today said it would fund the technology fixes required to make its inoperative Kepler space telescope active again and able to hunt for new planets and galaxies. Kepler, you may recall, was rendered inoperable after the second of four gyroscope-like reaction wheels, which are used to precisely point the spacecraft for extended periods of time, failed last year, ending data collection for the original mission. The spacecraft required three working wheels to maintain the precision pointing necessary to detect the signal of small Earth-sized exoplanets."

Re:Ithaco Space Systems made the wheels that faile

[i kan reed]

Is this: "crappy company delivers badly on contracts" or "company specializes in class of components that have a relatively high failure rate"?