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Three years on, TESS delivers on discoveries as extended mission continues – NASASpaceFlight.com – NASASpaceflight.com
Three years ago, on April 18, 2018, NASA’s and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Transiting…
Three years ago, on April 18, 2018, NASAs and the Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, launched successfully into a very high Earth orbit aboard the last new Block 4 Falcon 9 before the current human-rated Block 5 entered service.
Since then, it has dutifully observed the southern and northern skies, searching for tell-tale signs of nearby exoplanets crossing between their parent stars and the telescope’s cameras. Its primary mission now complete,…
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