Kepler

Kepler — spacecraft, explore its interactive 3D model in Cosmoscope.

Explore Kepler in a 3D Solar System. Follow its published mission trajectory and inspect its distance and spacecraft facts.

Kepler stared at one patch of sky for four years, catching the tiny dips in starlight as planets crossed their stars. By its retirement in 2018 it had found more than 2,600 planets, showing that worlds around other stars are commonplace.

Launched
7 Mar 2009
Status
Retired 2018 — drifting silently behind Earth

Explore Kepler in 3D

Explore Kepler along its published mission trajectory in the 3D Solar System. The model uses the available ephemeris interval; historical missions are not active spacecraft and extrapolations beyond an ephemeris interval are approximate.

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