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Kepler

Also known as Kepler Space Telescope

NASA · Launched

Explore trajectory

Completed · Success

NASA's Kepler was designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars in the Milky Way from heliocentric orbit.

Destinations

No celestial-body destination recorded; this extended-scope observatory studies a non-body scientific domain.

Launch vehicle
Delta II 7925-10L
Launch site
Cape Canaveral, Fla. / SLC-17B
Countries
United States
Mission types
Observatory

Chronology

Mission timeline

  1. Launch

    Kepler launched

    Earth

Mission architecture

Vehicles

  • Kepler · Spacecraft

Trajectory record

Time-dependent navigation trajectory

Source states place the model at the selected time. Reconstructed flight, estimates, predictions and historical mission plans are identified by interval; gaps remain visible.

J2000 · Sun-centered display · positions interpolated between source states

Coverage: March 7, 2009 to December 31, 2035

Source records and sampling assumptions are retained with the repository data. Model attitude and surface appearance are illustrative.

  • Kepler: Reconstructed · March 7, 2009 to December 31, 2035

Provenance

Sources

Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.

Data verified through October 6, 2026