Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) with an exoplanet, illustration. TESS is NASA's next step in the search for planets outside the solar system, also known as exoplanets. It is shown here with a lava planet (red) orbiting its host star, an example of the type of planets that may be detected. TESS is scheduled to launch on a Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than 16 April 2018, from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA. It will be 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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