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NASA Kepler Space Telescope Retires After Years of Discovery


Kepler Space Telescope: The Original Exoplanet Hunter

During its 9-year mission, NASA's Kepler space telescope discovered ... retired after 53 years of service to NASA, according to the agency.

Kepler, the Little NASA Spacecraft That Could, No Longer Can

After nine and a half years in orbit, 530506 stars observed and 2662 planets around other stars discovered, the telescope will be left to ...

NASA's Kepler mission has come to an end - CNN

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has run out of fuel, and its mission has come to an end 94 million miles from Earth, the agency announced ...

NASA to retire Kepler Space Telescope - Alabama Political Reporter

Tuesday, October 30 NASA announced in a statement that after nine years in deep space discovering thousands of alien planets NASA's Kepler ...

What Did Kepler Teach Us? Celebrating the Space Telescope, 10 ...

NASA's Kepler space telescope, launched March 6, 2009, was developed to search for planets around other stars and quantify their abundance in our galaxy.

After 9 Years In Orbit, Kepler Telescope Leaves A Legacy Of ...

Since March 2009, NASA has discovered more than 2,600 planets, including potentially habitable ones, thanks to the Kepler Space Telescope. Last ...

NASA Ends Kepler Space Telescope's Science Operations - Sci.News

NASA has decided to retire the spacecraft within its current, safe orbit, away from Earth ... William Borucki, now retired from NASA's Ames ...

NASA retires its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope

The United States space agency NASA decided on Tuesday to retire its Kepler space telescope that had run out of fuel needed for further ...

The Kepler Space Telescope Mission Is Ending But Its Legacy Will ...

The Kepler Space Telescope is dead. Long live the Kepler. NASA officials announced on Tuesday that the pioneering exoplanet survey telescope

The planet-hunting Kepler space telescope is dead - Science News

The Kepler space telescope can no longer search for planets orbiting other stars, ending its nearly 10-year mission.

RIP, Kepler: NASA's Revolutionary Planet-Hunting Telescope Runs ...

NASA's Kepler space telescope, which has discovered 70 percent of the 3800 confirmed alien worlds to date, has run out of fuel and signed ...

A history of the Kepler space telescope - BBC Sky at Night Magazine

NASA's Kepler space telescope was in operation for about nine years, searching for Earth-like, rocky planets beyond our Solar System - exoplanets.

Kepler / K2 In Depth - NASA Science

Key Facts Nation United States of America (USA) Objective(s) Solar Orbit; Planet Hunter Spacecraft Kepler Spacecraft Mass 2291 pounds (1039 kilograms) ...

With Fuel Exhausted, NASA Retires Kepler Telescope - Slashdot

... Kepler telescope after nearly ten years of service -- double its initial mission life. In that time, Kepler discovered over 2600 exoplanets ...

Kepler Exoplanet Mission | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

NASA has decided to retire the spacecraft within its current, safe orbit, away from Earth. Kepler leaves a legacy of more than 2,600 planet discoveries from ...

Why did NASA retire the Kepler Space Telescope when it ... - Quora

its reaction wheels failed a few years ago (and it didn't have more spares for redundancy) and since then it has needed more propellant than ...

NASA Kepler Telescope to retire, running out of fuel . | AVForums

TIME: NASA's Kepler Space Telescope Retires After Nine Years of Planet Discovery NASA's most prolific planet-hunter is powering down after ...

NASA retires Kepler telescope after nine years of exoplanet hunts ...

NASA has retired its planet-hunting Kepler after the space telescope ran out of fuel. In its nine years spent in deep space, Kepler peered beyond the edges of ...

Historic Kepler Space Telescope Put Into Retirement by NASA Officials

Illustration celebrating the legacy of the Kepler Space Telescope and its discoveries. Wendy Stenzel/Daniel Rutter for NASA. After nine years ...

Nasa's Kepler space telescope retires after discovering more than ...

After discovering more than 2600 planets, Kepler space telescope is headed for retirement.