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Comics NASA's Kepler Space Telescope Is Running Out of Fuel and May Not Have Much More Time

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope Is Running Out of Fuel and May Not Have Much More Time

by fhh on July 08, 2018 in Comics

NASA’s storied Kepler Space Telescope—the craft which has discovered thousands of exoplanets since its launch in 2009—is entering the retirement phase of its lifespan. NASA announced on Friday that Kepler staff had “received an indication that the spacecraft fuel tank is running very low” and “placed the spacecraft in…