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Originally Posted by polak
Kepler space telescope went into Emergency Mode. 
I had no idea that it was in orbit around the sun (not the earth) 75 million miles from Earth!
Wont be seeing any missions to fix it when its that far! |
Kepler is already 3.5 years past it's expected life span so it's bound to shut down, real bummer though as the James Webb wont launch for at least 2 more years.
Kepler's orbit see's it lag behind earths by 10 days per year, we'll catch up and fix it in about 80 years.
