Goodnight Kepler! NASA scientists lay the exoplanet expert to rest as it finally runs out of fuel
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/30/goodnight_kepler_nasa_scientists_lay_the_exoplanet_expert_to_rest_as_it_finally_runs_out_of_fuel/
The Kepler spacecraft has coughed up its last reserves of fuel and is now retired, after helping scientists discover thousands of exoplanets for nearly a decade, NASA announced on Tuesday.
“Fuel exhaustion means it has reached the end of its space life,” Charlie Sobeck, a project system engineer at NASA’s Ames Research Center, said during a teleconference call. There were clear indications that the telescope was on its way out in late June as scientists could no longer accurately measure the amount left.
Goodnight Kepler! NASA scientists lay the exoplanet expert to rest as it finally runs out of fuel
Oct 30, 2018, 10:30pm UTC
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/30/goodnight_kepler_nasa_scientists_lay_the_exoplanet_expert_to_rest_as_it_finally_runs_out_of_fuel/
> The Kepler spacecraft has coughed up its last reserves of fuel and is now retired, after helping scientists discover thousands of exoplanets for nearly a decade, NASA announced on Tuesday.
> “Fuel exhaustion means it has reached the end of its space life,” Charlie Sobeck, a project system engineer at NASA’s Ames Research Center, said during a teleconference call. There were clear indications that the telescope was on its way out in late June as scientists could no longer accurately measure the amount left.