{"id":84802,"date":"2018-11-16T17:02:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T01:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/news-on-the-evening-of-thursday-nov-15-nasas-kepler-space-telescope-received-its-final-set-of-commands-to-disconnect-communications-with-earth"},"modified":"2018-11-16T17:02:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T01:02:33","slug":"news-on-the-evening-of-thursday-nov-15-nasas-kepler-space-telescope-received-its-final-set-of-commands-to-disconnect-communications-with-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/news-on-the-evening-of-thursday-nov-15-nasas-kepler-space-telescope-received-its-final-set-of-commands-to-disconnect-communications-with-earth","title":{"rendered":"News: On the evening of Thursday, Nov. 15, NASA\u2019s Kepler space telescope received its final set of commands to disconnect communications with Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cwDkPKPi1mY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cgoodnight\u201d commands finalize the spacecraft\u2019s transition into retirement, which began on Oct. 30 with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.php?feature=7272\">NASA\u2019s announcement<\/a> that Kepler had run out of fuel and could no longer conduct science.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, Kepler\u2019s \u201cgoodnight\u201d falls on the same date as the 388-year anniversary of the death of its namesake, German astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion and passed away on Nov. 15, 1630.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.php?feature=7284&utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nasajpl&utm_content=daily20181116-4\">https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.php?feature=7284&utm_sour...1116&#45;4<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cgoodnight\u201d commands finalize the spacecraft\u2019s transition into retirement, which began on Oct. 30 with NASA\u2019s announcement that Kepler had run out of fuel and could no longer conduct science. Coincidentally, Kepler\u2019s \u201cgoodnight\u201d falls on the same date as the 388-year anniversary of the death of its namesake, German astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}