Complex sentence: It was later assigned the name "Kepler-11" after the Kepler spacecraft, a NASA satellite tasked with discovering planets in transit of, or crossing in front of, their stars.
Split into simpler sentences: It was later assigned the name "Kepler-11". Furthermore, Kepler-11 was named after the Kepler spacecraft, a NASA satellite tasked with discovering planets in transit of, or crossing in front of, their stars.