The famous hunting telescope at NASA's Kepler planet runs out of fuel, put it into hibernation mode

Launched in 2009, NASA's famed Kepler, a hunting telescope on the planet, is set to hibernate as it has almost run out of fuel. The space agency said on Saturday that Kepler's team had received an indication that the spacecraft's fuel tank was flat, prompting the agency to put the spaceship into a state. d & # 39; hibernation. The move was done in order to prepare the spacecraft to download the data collected in its last observation campaign.

Once the data downloaded, we expect to start observations for the next campaign with all the remaining fuel, the announcement added

Launched in 2009 with the aim of finding out more about the number and frequency of planets in our galaxy, the telescope that is about 100 million kilometers from Earth has monitored more than 150,000 stars in the Cygnus-Lyra region. "The Kepler team intends to collect as much scientific data as possible in the remaining time and bring them back to Earth before the loss of the fuel boosters we can not target the spacecraft for the Data Transfer We even intend to take some final calibration data with the last piece of fuel, if the opportunity arises, "said NASA's announcement.

"It's like trying to decide when to refuel gas." Do you stop now? Or try to get to the next station? In our case, there's no of next station, so we want to stop collecting data while we are still comfortable that we can aim the spacecraft to bring it back to Earth, "added the US Space Agency

. run, the space telescope had its share of problems: it switched to emergency mode earlier in 2016 for unknown reasons making NASA a "temporary space emergency" while the space agency was working to put the telescope back online.

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