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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)

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Overview

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite surveys the brightest nearby stars for transiting planets across nearly the whole sky.

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  • NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration

    Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.

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