Saturday 7 July 2018

NASA put its famous planet-hunting telescope to sleep because it’s almost out of fuel

NASA put its famous planet-hunting telescope to sleep because it’s almost out of fuel

The Kepler Space Telescope is almost out of fuel, which means its life is coming to an end, NASA announced today. The space agency says it put the planet-hunting spacecraft into a “hibernation” safe mode this past Monday, and that a plan to reactivate Kepler next month could burn out whatever fuel remains.

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