Newslink: RIP, Kepler: NASA's Revolutionary Planet-Hunting Telescope Runs Out of Fuel

zathras (66)in #newslink • 7 years ago

The most prolific planet-hunting machine in history is dead. NASA's Kepler space telescope, which has discovered 70 percent of the 3,800 confirmed alien worlds to date, has run out of fuel and signed off.

https://www.space.com/41363-kepler-exoplanet-hunting-telescope-dead.html

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anzha (55) 7 years ago

As the highly successful Kepler spacecraft ends its 9-year mission, humanity can look back at an instrument that greatly expanded our knowledge of planetary systems around other stars and discovered many Earth-sized and smaller planets, some of them in the habitable zone where liquid water, and therefore life as we know it, could exist.
The Kepler mission was conceived as a Discovery Program mission at the turn of the century and was approved as the tenth mission in the program in December 2001.

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/10/kepler-retired-after-running-out-of-fuel/

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