NASA was forced to plan for the inevitable death of the exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope a few weeks ago. The spacecraft, which had already discovered literally thousands of new planets, ran out of fuel and couldn’t continue its science observations. Now, NASA has finally said goodnight to its trusty telescope.
In a new post NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains what it had to do to officially send Kepler out to pasture. Believe it or not, it’s actually a bit more complicated than just flipping a switch.
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Here’s now NASA said goodbye to the Kepler space telescope originally appeared on BGR.com on Sun, 18 Nov 2018 at 14:17:38 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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