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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Transiting_ExoplanetTransiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite - Wikipedia

    In 2008, MIT proposed that TESS become a full NASA mission and submitted it for the Small Explorer program at Goddard Space Flight Center, but it was not selected. It was resubmitted in 2010 as an Explorer program mission, and was approved in April 2013 as a Medium Explorer mission.

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  4. exoplanets.nasa.gov › tessTransiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite (TESS) – Exoplanet ...

    TESS finished its primary mission by imaging about 75% of the starry sky as part of a two-year-long survey. In capturing this giant mosaic, TESS found 66 new exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, as well as nearly 2,100 candidates astronomers are working to confirm.

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  6. tess.mit.edu › scienceMission Overview - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is an MIT-led NASA mission to spend two years discovering transiting exoplanets by an all-sky survey. TESS has four identical, highly optimized, red-sensitive, wide-field cameras that together can monitor a 24 degree by 90 degree strip of the sky.

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  7. science.nasa.gov › mission › tessTESS - NASA Science

    NASA’s TESS discovers exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system. In the course of its extended observations of the sky, TESS also finds and monitors all types of objects that change in brightness, from nearby asteroids to pulsating stars and distant galaxies containing supernovae.

  8. www.nasa.gov › universe › nasas-tess-missionNASA’s TESS Mission Completes First Year of Survey, Turns to ...

    Jul 25, 2019 · NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered 21 planets outside our solar system and captured data on other interesting events occurring in the southern sky during its first year of science.

  9. astrobiology.nasa.gov › missions › tessTESS | Missions | Astrobiology

    On July 4, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) completed its primary mission, a two-year-long survey that imaged about 75% of the starry sky. In capturing this giant mosaic, TESS has found 66 new exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, as well as nearly 2,100 candidates astronomers are working to confirm.

  10. www.nasa.gov › general › experience-the-launch-ofExperience the Launch of the NASA TESS Mission - NASA

    Mar 8, 2018 · The TESS mission is NASA’s next planet hunter. Following on from the successful Kepler mission , TESS will scan nearly the entire sky and is expected to find thousands of new planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets .

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