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Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
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NASA satellite of the Explorer program
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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...

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Instance of
Space telescope
Part of
Explorers Program
Country of origin
United States
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