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Vor 4 Tagen · Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a space telescope for NASA's Explorer program, designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method in an area 400 times larger than that covered by the Kepler mission.
- 362 kg (798 lb)
- Explorer 95, TESS, MIDEX-7
- 2 years (planned), 5 years, 5 months, 16 days (in progress)
- 18 April 2018, 22:51:30 UTC
11. Apr. 2024 · Launched in 2018, TESS has been scanning almost the entire sky looking for planets beyond our solar system, known as exoplanets. The TESS mission has also uncovered other cosmic phenomena, including star-shredding black holes and stellar oscillations. Read more about TESS discoveries at nasa.gov/tess.
Vor 6 Tagen · NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is back in action after nine days in safe mode, returning to scientific observations on May 3.
25. Apr. 2024 · Astronomers using TESS think they are made a rather surprising discovery; their first free-floating—or rogue—planet. The planet was discovered using gravitational microlensing where the planet ...
Vor einem Tag · Watch on. TESS Orbit Design in Earth-Moon Rotating Frame – Image: NASA/ADS. TESS will reach its orbit through a complex flight design featuring up to eleven burns of its orbit maneuvering engine plus a critical lunar flyby – creating around 60 days of maneuvering to place the spacecraft into its operational orbit.
24. Apr. 2024 · Astronomers using TESS think they are made a rather surprising discovery; their first free-floating – or rogue – planet. The planet was discovered using gravitational microlensing where the ...
Vor 4 Tagen · NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) hosts a single instrument comprising four identical Wide Field Cameras to be able to observe a sizeable sector of the sky and, over the course of a two-year primary mission, obtain an all-sky survey of transiting exoplanets in orbit around bright stars close to Earth.
