2001–2012: Planetary Exploration Becomes Persistent
Kepler
Revolutionized exoplanet discovery and occurrence-rate studies.
Era 4 of 6 · full record in the catalog
- Launch
- 7 Mar 2009
- Lead / partner
- United States
- Target
- Earth-trailing solar orbit
- Category
- Space observatory
- Status
- Success
- Vehicle
- Delta II
- Mass
- unknown
- Orbit / trajectory
- Heliocentric
- Duration
- Planned: 3.5 years Final: 9 years, 7 months, 23 days
Why it happened
Kepler flew during 2001–2012: Planetary Exploration Becomes Persistent, as part of United States's work toward earth-trailing solar orbit. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.
The mission
The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: Revolutionized exoplanet discovery and occurrence-rate studies.
Results
Revolutionized exoplanet discovery and occurrence-rate studies.
Related missions
Sources & image credits
- NASA/JPL-CalTech, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · license: public-domain (source, checked 2026-08-24)
- Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
- Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog
