Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite #2
by Nasa/goddard Space Flight Center/science Photo Library
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Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite #2
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Nasa/goddard Space Flight Center/science Photo Library
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Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in space, illustration. This satellite is NASA's next step in the search for planets outside the solar system, also known as exoplanets. TESS launched on a Falcon 9 rocket on 18 April 2018, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA. It was placed in a highly elliptical lunar resonant orbit (P/2) to carry out its all-sky survey. Illustration published in September 2017.
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October 24th, 2019
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