Questions tagged [tess]
Questions about the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
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What fraction of stellar systems could/can Kepler and TESS search for planets?
Since Kepler and TESS search for exoplanets by their transit in front of their host stars, they can only find planets around stars whose ecliptic plane is nearly edge-on as seen from Earth. (Ref 1 &...
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How actively is Deep Learning being used in exoplanet identification? [closed]
Papers, like this one from Google, show that Deep Learning and Machine Learning are effective in detecting exoplanets from luminosity data provided by telescopes like TESS or Kepler.
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Is TESS really lost? What does Celestrak mean exactly?
From this answer to the question What artificial satellite has the farthest orbit around the Earth?:
I found the following "far out" spacecraft:
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)...
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Is OSIRIS-REx's high gain antenna nearly the same as TESS'? If so, why?
These two high gain antennas look very similar superficially, but are not identical. Is this a case of convergent design (a fancy kind of coincidence) or have they evolved from the same source, or ...
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What causes these cross-shaped artifacts in TESS' first images?
TESS has a group of four wide field cameras each with four large CCD imagers that will collect photometric data at a relatively high cadence, and therefore generate a ton of data.
above: "TESS (...
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Any news of TESS' lunar flyby; how well did go?
According to this TESS tweet:
TESS is on track for a lunar flyby on 17 May at 06:34:35 UTC (2:34 AM EST). At this point, TESS will be 8,253 km from the lunar surface. In the coming days, follow @...
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Why was TESS' launch window open for only 40 seconds per day?
The BBC news podcast Science in Action episode New Planet Hunting Mission covers the upcoming TESS mission between 01:00 and 07:15 with Sara Seager, TESS deputy ...
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Why does Earth not appear to be at the focus of TESS' elliptical orbit in this video?
An excellent review of all of the considerations and work that has gone into designing TESS' orbit can be read in the ArXiv preprint A High Earth, Lunar Resonant Orbit for Lower Cost Space Science ...
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TESS orbit and moon resonance
On April 17, SpaceX will launch TESS satellite.
Satellite description:
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a planned telescope for NASA'S explorer progra. designed to search for ...
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What is the function of this array of what looks like mirrors on TESS?
The Mashable.com article TESS is about to become your new favorite NASA mission shows a beautiful photo of the TESS spacecraft in a state that looks like it is nearly ready to launch.
There is a ...
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The appearance of TESS' dish seems to be evolving, what will be the final configuration?
The question Why is TESS' high gain antenna made of undulating BLACK fabric rather than metal? has had three bounties, and is probably the recipient of this sites longest answer.
My personal pet ...
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Will SpaceX land the first stage for the TESS mission on land or a barge?
I may have the opportunity to watch the upcoming Falcon 9 launch of NASA's TESS mission in person. Because of this, I'm curious whether I'll be able to watch the first stage of the Falcon 9 land back ...
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Will there be “Near Space” Ka-band allocations for TESS?
update: More information in Phys.org's news item TESS mission to discover new planets moves toward launch, including a video of the telescope array's final assembly.
Also see GSFC's TESS page.
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Why is TESS' high gain antenna made of undulating BLACK fabric rather than metal?
above: from Facebook, then annotated.
There is an excellent review of the design of the TESS spacecraft in G. R. Richter et al. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, ...
