Trajectory from Horizons state vectors
Kepler's position is interpolated between 118 heliocentric state-vector samples from JPL Horizons that run through 2018-10-17. Past the last sample the marker holds its final position.
NASA's planet-hunting Kepler monitored 150,000 stars from an Earth-trailing solar orbit, discovering thousands of exoplanets.
One record per aspect. The origin says what kind of thing each value is; the source says where it came from; the limit says what it cannot tell you.
Kepler's position is interpolated between 118 heliocentric state-vector samples from JPL Horizons that run through 2018-10-17. Past the last sample the marker holds its final position.
Kepler: mass 1.052 × 10^3 kg. These values are bundled with the object record and drive the rendered size.
The close-up shows a published 3D model scaled to 5 m observatory length. Distributed through NASA 3D Resources; original mission-agency credit applies.
The short description and the fact list are written by the Space Time authors for orientation. They are not quoted from a catalog field and carry no citation of their own.
Trajectory coverage: 2009-03-08 to 2018-10-17 (118 samples). Outside that window the marker holds its last known position.
| Dataset | Last refreshed | Horizon | Automated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spacecraft trajectories (baked keyframes) | no snapshot date | Per craft: each evidence page states the first and last sample date | No, refreshed by hand scripts/bake-trajectories.mjs |