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NASA launches exoplanet-hunting satellite TESS. 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. [ 6]
After the reaction wheels failed on Kepler, this mission was created Gaia: December 19, 2013 Ongoing 0 0 Map 1 billion astronomical objects in the Milky Way (First data Release November 2, 2016) ASTERIA: November 2017 December 5, 2019 0 0 CubeSat, technology demonstrator TESS: April 18, 2018 Ongoing 233+ 3,876
English: NASA Goddard 631K subscribers NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first Earth-size planet in its star's habitable zone, the range of distances where conditions may be just right to allow the presence of liquid water on the surface.
Less than a year after NASA’s TESS spacecraft was launched, the scientists behind the mission have unveiled their third confirmed planet, a weird alien world that’s between Earth and Neptune ...
On Monday evening, NASA plans to launch a brand new satellite into orbit, courtesy of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Called TESS (the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), the spacecraft is designed ...
The two teams, including one in Tokyo, used observations by Nasa’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) to help make their discovery. The planet’s equivalent of the Sun, called Gliese ...
PLATO. PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars ( PLATO) is a space telescope under development by the European Space Agency for launch in 2026. [ 4] The mission goals are to search for planetary transits across up to one million stars, and to discover and characterize rocky extrasolar planets around yellow dwarf stars (like the Sun ...
List of NASA missions. Comparison of NASA Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle spacecraft with their launch vehicles. This is a list of NASA missions, both crewed and robotic, since the establishment of NASA in 1957. There are over 80 currently active science missions. [ 1]