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Thread: Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), space telescope, NASA / MIT, USA

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    Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), space telescope, NASA / MIT, USA


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    Meet NASA's new exoplanet-hunting satellite, TESS

    Published on Apr 14, 2018

    Astrophysicist and planetary scientist from MIT, Sara Seager, discusses the mission of NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and how we will search for new exoplanets and extraterrestrial life.
    "NASA, SpaceX to launch spacecraft to find another Earth"
    We speak to scientists behind a new mission to find nearby exoplanets that could host life.

    by Epic Mack
    April 14, 2018

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    How NASA’s TESS spacecraft will hunt exoplanets

    Published on Apr 16, 2018

    NASA’s TESS spacecraft will spend two years searching the sky for nearby alien worlds.

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    Liftoff! SpaceX launches NASA TESS Planet Finder Mission

    Published on Apr 18, 2018

    NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission was launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 18, 2018. -- NASA's TESS Satellite Will Supercharge Search for Nearby, Earth-Like Worlds

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    TESS Spacecraft Separates from Falcon 9 upper stage

    Published on Apr 18, 2018

    A camera on the Falcon 9 upper stage shows NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, as it separates and is deployed into a highly elliptical orbit. Liftoff took place from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 at 6:51 p.m. EDT. The satellite is a NASA Astrophysics Explorer Mission led and operated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

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    TESS Mission

    Streamed live on Apr 18, 2018

    SpaceX is targeting launch of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) on Wednesday, April 18 from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The 30-second launch window opens at 6:51 p.m. EDT, or 22:51 UTC. TESS will be deployed into a highly elliptical orbit approximately 48 minutes after launch.

    Following stage separation, SpaceX will attempt to land Falcon 9’s first stage on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.

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    TESS | Landing

    Published on Apr 20, 2018

    First Stage Landing on Drone Ship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’

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