Kepler Launch: The Search for Habitable Planets

Named after 16th century German mathematician Johannes Kepler, the Kepler spacecraft began its mission on March 6, 2009. Scarcely a month after the launch Kepler had discovered its first 5 exoplanets.

The orbiting Kepler craft carries a NASA developed photometer to measure possible light fluctuation in approximately 150,000 stars in a fixed field of view over a period of three and a half years. Confirmation of a star's light fluctuation would indicate an orbiting planet.

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