Known for the ability to find alien worlds, the Kepler Space Telescope has changed our way of thinking of the universe. But how was it built?
Complete Guide to the Kepler Space Telescope Mission and the Search for Habitable Planets and Earth-like Exoplanets - Planet Detection Strategies, Mission History and Accomplishments
After several months with their telescope on the sidelines, the Kepler space telescope team has happy news to report: the exoplanet hunter is going to do a new mission that will compensate for the failure that stopped its original work. Kepler’s exoplanet days werehalted last yearwhen the s...
New mission Within a few months, the agency came up with a new mission for the space telescope that it dubbed K2. The mission would use the sun's solar wind to stabilize the telescope for several months at a time. Then, about four times a year, the telescope, which is about 15 feet...
The Kepler Mission is a Discovery mission supported by NASA's Science Mission Directorate, and its primary aim is to discover Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone of solar-type stars. The space telescope was designed with a photometer that monitors the Kepler field in a near continuous ...
Kepler Planet-Detection Mission: Introduction and First Results The Kepler mission was designed to determine the frequency of Earth-sized planets in and near the habitable zone of Sun-like stars. The habitable zone is t... Borucki, W. J,D Koch,G Basri,... - 《Science》...
Busted Exoplanet-Hunting Kepler Space Telescope Gets a New MissionMike Wall,SPACE.com
As the mission progresses, Kepler will drift farther and farther behind Earth in its orbit around the sun. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which was launched into the same orbit more than five years ago, is now more than 62 million miles behind Earth. Kepler is a NASA Discovery mission. ...
Four years into the mission, after the primary mission objectives had been met, mechanical failures temporarily halted observations. The mission team was able to devise a fix, switching the spacecraft’s field of view roughly every three months. This enabled an extended mission for the spa...
His name is also well-known thanks to NASA's exoplanet-finding Kepler space telescope. What did Kepler invent? In 1611, Kepler invented a type of telescope, now called a Keplerian telescope, that used a convex eyepiece lens to provide a wide field of view, rather than the narrow field...