TESS
NASA · launched 2018
Planet hunter in an orbit timed to the Moon’s.
Right now · as of
Earth–Moon space
361,141 km from Earth; a signal takes 1.2 s
149 million km from the Sun, moving at 0.73 km/s relative to Earth
Open in 3DThe flight
April 18, 2018
Launched on Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral SLC-40
May 17, 2018
Flies past Moon, 9,990 km away
From the trajectory NASA JPL Horizons publishes for it.
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
NASA satellite of the Explorer program
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a space telescope for NASA's Explorer program, designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method in an area 400 times larger than that covered by the Kepler mission. It was launched on 18 April 2018, atop a Falcon 9 launch vehicle and was placed into a highly elliptical 13.70-day orbit around the Earth.
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Facts
- What it is
- Space telescope
- Agency
- NASA
- Launched
- April 18, 2018
- Rocket
- Falcon 9
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SLC-40
- International designator
- 2018-038A
- 3D model
- NASA/Matthew J. Garcia