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NASA retires Kepler Space Telescope
November 3 , 2018
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- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) has decided to retire the Kepler space telescope.
- It has run out of fuel after a 9-1/2-year mission. During this period, it detected more than 2,600 planet discoveries from outside our solar system, many of which could be promising places for life.
Kepler Space Telescope
- It is an unmanned space observatory and it was originally launched in 2009 as a part of NASA’s Discovery Program.
- Kepler was the first telescope to find a planet (Kepler-69c) approximately the size of Earth in the habitable region of a star.
- It examined the TRAPPIST-1 system which likely has multiple Earth-sized planets in it between December 2016 and March 2017.
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