Meet NASA's new planet hunter: TESS
88 views · Published 29 March 2018 · 4:27 · Indexed 23 September 2026
Channel: IBTimes UK · 2018 · News & Politics
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will find undiscovered worlds around bright nearby stars, providing targets where future studies will assess their capacity to harbor life. TESS is a NASA Astrophysics Explorer mission, led and operated by MIT and managed by Goddard. With the help of a gravitational assist from the Moon, the spacecraft will settle into a 13.7-day orbit around Earth.
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