The Kepler spacecraft is an American space observatory, the space-based portion of NASA's Kepler Mission to discover Earth like planets orbiting other stars. The spacecraft, named in honor of the 17th-century German astronomer Johannes kepler, was launched in March 2009 with a planned mission lifetime of at least 3.5 years.
Its main target is to scan our Milky way galaxy. Its main objective is to find the planets in the habitatal zone just like Earth.
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