Space telescope
TESS
ObservatoriesOperational
Imagery
TESS Spacecraft Uncrating
The shipping container with NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) arrives inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
2018
NASA/Kennedy · NASA media (public domain)
Overview
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite surveys the brightest nearby stars for transiting planets across nearly the whole sky.
Observing bands
Knowledge connections
- Operated byNASA
- Launched byFalcon 9
- Launched fromCape Canaveral Space Force Station
- ObservesVisible light
- DiscoveredAU Mic b
- DiscoveredAU Mic c
- DiscoveredGJ 341 b
- DiscoveredGJ 357 b
- DiscoveredGJ 367 b
- DiscoveredGJ 806 b
- DiscoveredGliese 12 b
- DiscoveredHD 191939 b
- DiscoveredHD 191939 c
- DiscoveredHD 191939 d
- DiscoveredHD 260655 b
- DiscoveredHD 260655 c
- Discoveredpi Men c
- DiscoveredHD 63433 b
- DiscoveredHD 63433 c
- DiscoveredHD 63433 d
- DiscoveredHD 101581 b
- DiscoveredHD 101581 c
- DiscoveredL 98-59 b
- DiscoveredL 98-59 c
- DiscoveredL 98-59 d
- DiscoveredLHS 1678 b
- DiscoveredLHS 1678 c
- DiscoveredLHS 1678 d
- DiscoveredLHS 3844 b
- DiscoveredLHS 475 b
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
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