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Kepler
CompletedNASA
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- Launched
- 7 Mar 200903:49:57 UTC
- Last contact
- 15 Nov 2018
- End declared
- 30 Oct 2018
- Duration
- 9 years 8 months
A NASA space telescope that watched for the slight dimming of stars as planets crossed in front of them, discovering more than 2,600 exoplanets.
Milestones
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Launch7 Mar 2009Planet search begins13 May 2009K2 mission begins16 May 2014Switched off15 Nov 2018
Spacecraft
Photometer with a 0.95 m aperture and a 95-megapixel camera, which stared at a single field of stars for four years before a second mission, K2.
- Launch mass
- 1,052 kg
- Dry mass
- 1,040 kg
- Size
- 4.7 m × 2.7 m, span 4.7 m
- Power
- Solar
- Last contact
- 15 Nov 2018
- End declared
- 30 Oct 2018
- Designator
- 2009-011A
Mission details from science.nasa.gov.
