TESS — Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (Спутник наблюдения за транзитами экзопланет)- 19.04.18

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Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF 2 мин. назад

#TESS has daily launch opportunities from April 16-19 and 21-26 before needing to stand down for the InSight mission to Mars. TESS has launch opportunities again in May and June if needed. #SpaceX #Falcon9 #NASA

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Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF 2 мин. назад

Nominal rollout of #Falcon9 is at midnight EDT tonight. There's 3-4 hrs of contingency time in there in case weather is still iffy at midnight and they need to delay rollout. #SpaceX #TESS #NASA

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Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF 45 сек. назад

They will try to recovery the payload fairing. But it won't be caught in a net. So a floating fairing recovery is planned. #SpaceX #Falcon9 #TESS #NASA

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Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight 2 мин. назад

Koenigsmann: Block V is here. It was the fastest test campaign we've ever had in Texas on a new block upgrade. I am looking forward to that launch in early May.

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Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight 3 мин. назад

Update on #SpaceX's TESS recovery plans:
 - Hawk has towed OCISLY into the vicinity of the #Falcon9 recovery zone.
 - GO Quest is ready to support OCISLY after landing.
 - GO Pursuit is on its way to the fairing recovery zone. It will attempt to pull a fairing out of the water.

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Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight 1 мин. назад

Unconfirmed: We *may* see a return of Roomba/Octagrabber/the robot that secures #Falcon9 after landing during tomorrow's recovery on OCISLY.

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Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF 2 мин. назад

#Falcon9's 30sec launch window tomorrow is designed to allow for Collision Avoidance shifts in the launch time if needed. Window should be thought of a instantaneous window. #SpaceX #NASA #TESS

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Предпусковой брифинг завершен

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Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF 8 мин. назад

TESS will dramatically increase the number of known exoplanets. It will more than double the number found by Kepler. #NASA #TESS #SpaceX #Falcon9

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Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF 6 мин. назад

TESS has the capability to find exo-moons the size of the Galilean moons and maybe even moons the size of our moon. #NASA #TESS #SpaceX #Falcon9

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Пресс-конференция завершена

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https://www.orbitalatk.com/news-room/insideOA/OrbitalATK-TESS/default.aspx?prid=283

Orbital ATK-Built TESS Satellite Set to Begin Two-Year Mission

Under a contract awarded by NASA in 2013, Orbital ATK designed, manufactured, integrated and tested the space agency's next planet hunter: the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The spacecraft is slated to begin its two-year mission on April 16 as it launches fr om Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

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Throughout the initial two-year mission, the TESS spacecraft will be controlled from the Orbital ATK's Mission Operations Center in Virginia.

TESS will begin wh ere NASA's Kepler spacecraft left off, searching for exoplanets among other stars in the universe. TESS, however, has the ability to cover an area 400 times larger than that covered by Kepler. TESS will be the first-ever exoplanet satellite to perform a survey of the entire sky using four wide-field cameras to discover exoplanets orbiting nearby stars and will seek to identify habitable, Earth-like planets. TESS will further the study of small exoplanets, first discovered by Kepler, by examining an immense quantity of small planets that surround the sky's brightest stars. TESS stars will be 30 to 100 times brighter than those surveyed by Kepler, making the planets easier to characterize with follow-up observations that will provide planet masses, sizes, densities and atmospheric properties.

The TESS spacecraft was designed, integrated and tested at Orbital ATK's Dulles, Virginia, facility. Here, technicians are preparing the satellite for shipment to the launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

TESS was built at Orbital ATK's Satellite Manufacturing Facility in Dulles, Virginia and is based on the company's LEOStar-2™ bus. Orbital ATK has a rich history of manufacturing small space science satellites. From small, low-cost missions like GALEX, used to explore the origin and evolution of galaxies and stars, to Dawn, the first mission of its kind to orbit two interplanetary bodies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, the company's robust spacecraft platforms and comprehensive engineering have enabled many of the satellites, including both GALEX and Dawn, to significantly exceed their designed mission lifetimes. TESS marks the 31st science spacecraft Orbital ATK has built for NASA's research programs.

This artist's rendering shows TESS in orbit. The spacecraft is expected to discover more than 20,000 exoplanets during its two-year mission.

TESS, led and operated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a NASA Astrophysics Explorer mission managed by the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center. During its initial two-year mission, Orbital ATK will be controlled from the company's Dulles, Virginia, Mission Operations Center.

NASA TV live launch coverage of TESS will begin at 6 p.m. For NASA TV downlink information, schedules and links to streaming video, click here.

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Pre-Launch News Conference for NASA's TESS Mission on SpaceX Falcon 9

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Опубликовано: 15 апр. 2018 г.

Mission managers take part in a pre-launch news conference for the TESS mission that SpaceX will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket for NASA.

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