TESS project will launch telescopes to perform full-sky search for transiting exoplanets
Monday, April 8, 2013 - 05:30
in Astronomy & Space
NASA has selected the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) project for a planned launch in 2017. The $200 million project will use an array of wide-field cameras to perform an all-sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth-sized planets to gas giants, in orbit around the brightest stars in the sun's neighborhood.