The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite 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
TESS satellite
TESS – first light (7 August 2018)
The 26 observation sectors of the sky planned for TESS
Falcon 9 launch vehicle carrying TESS, launching from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral in April 2018
TOI-700 d
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TOI-700 d is a dense, rocky, near-Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the red dwarf TOI-700. It is located roughly 101.4 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Dor
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
…Extended Mission 2020 to 2022 was approved. On 3 January 2020, NASA reported that TESS had discovered its first potentially habitable Earth-sized planet, TOI-700 d. TESS is designed to carry out the first spaceborne all-sky transiting exoplanet survey. It is equipped with four wide-angle telescopes and associated…
Artistic simulation of TOI-700 d, depicted here as a possible ocean planet. The actual appearance of the planet is not currently known.
Simulation of the planetary system of TOI-700 (center) and its habitable zone, with planet d orbiting within the inner edge.
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