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• TESS Mission Fails to Make the Cut

  added on 22 Jun 2009

  NASA has made its choices, and TESS is not one of them. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite would have used six telescopes to observe the brightest stars in the sky, a remarkable 2.5 million of them, hoping to find more than 1,000 transiting planets ranging in size from Jupiter-mass down to...

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• TESS Mission Fails to Make the Cut

  posted to Centauri Dreams on 23 Sep 2009

  NASA has made its choices, and TESS is not one of them. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite would have used six telescopes to observe the brightest stars in the sky, a remarkable 2.5 million of them, hoping to find more than 1,000 transiting planets ranging in size from Jupiter-mass down to...

• No SMEX-love for TESS

  posted to The Great Beyond on 23 Sep 2009

  Late Friday afternoon, NASA announced the winners to its most recent competition in the "small explorer" or SMEX programme, which is a chance for principal investigators, often from universities, to offer up their bold new ideas and have NASA pay for their chance to be in charge. After a year-lo...

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