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

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Прогноз погоды L-3 

Falcon 9 TESS L-3 Day Forecast

80% GO 
Резервный день: ↑ > 90%

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NASA_TESS‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_TESS 4 мин. назад

Some additional photos of the arrival of the @NASA_TESS's @SpaceX #Falcon 9 fairing!

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NASA_TESS‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_TESS 7 мин. назад

.@NASA_TESS was encapsulated within the @SpaceX #Falcon9 fairing at @NASAKennedy. #TESS is on track for an April 16th launch attempt.

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Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF 16 мин. назад

A good sense of how small @NASA_TESS (@TESSatMIT) is. That's a standard sized #Falcon9 payload fairing. At just 350 kg (772 lbs), TESS will be the lightest payload ever launched by the Falcon 9.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/tess/2018/04/13/tess-briefings-and-events-scheduled-for-sunday-april-15/

TESS Briefings and Events Scheduled for Sunday, April 15

Anna Heiney
Posted Apr 13, 2018 at 4:00 pm

NASA's TESS satellite is scheduled to launch Monday, April 16, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, on an ambitious mission to search for planets outside our solar system. Tune in Sunday for a series of briefings and events broadcast live on NASA TV.

Catch the NASA Social Mission Overview at 11 a.m., a prelaunch news conference at 1 p.m. and a news conference focusing on the science of the mission beginning at 3 p.m. All times are Eastern. View the TESS Briefings and Events page for the full list of event participants.

Join us here or at NASA TV from 6 to 8 p.m. on Monday for live coverage from the countdown. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 is scheduled for 6:32 p.m.

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Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight 7 мин. назад

OCISLY recovery for TESS confirmed. Port radio:

"Hawk over here with the SpaceX barge making preparations to get underway at 1700. Just looking to see how the traffic is going.

Harbor Master: "Disney Dream is scheduled at the same time. After that, you are clear to go."

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The tug Eagle has also pulled up to OCISLY to help escort it out of the port.

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TESS: NASA's Next Planet Hunter

NASA Video

Опубликовано: 13 апр. 2018 г.

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will discover thousands of exoplanets in orbit around the brightest stars in the sky. In a two-year survey of the solar neighborhood, TESS will monitor more than 200,000 stars for temporary drops in brightness caused by planetary transits. This first-ever space-borne all-sky transit survey will identify planets ranging from Earth-sized to gas giants, around a wide range of stellar types and orbital distances. No ground-based survey can achieve this feat. To learn more, go to https://www.nasa.gov/tess

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Прогноз погоды L-2 

Falcon 9 TESS L-2 Day Forecast

80% GO 
Резервный день: ↑ > 90%

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Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight 15 мин. назад

#SpaceX recovery support vessels GO Quest and GO Pursuit left Port Canaveral this morning in support of #TESS recovery operations. Most likely, GO Quest will support OCISLY and GO Pursuit will support fairing recovery testing. We will know more once they get into position.

12 мин. назад

Reminder: Neither of these vessels are capable of catching a fairing like Mr. Steven. However, they can collect data and potentially pull one out of the water.

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dfln пишет:
Что-то о прожиге не слышно

#52, #53, #54, #55, #56, #57 - на предыдущей странице темы.

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NASA_TESS‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_TESS 4 ч. назад

Team members put the final touches on @NASA_TESS before encapsulation within the @SpaceX #Falcon9 rocket. Work included removing protective covers on the #TESS cameras that helped keep them clean while in testing.

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NASA_TESS‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_TESS 2 ч. назад

A final picture of @NASA_TESS, @NASA's next #exoplanet hunting mission, before it was enclosed within the @SpaceX #Falcon9 for launch! Go #TESS!

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NASA_TESS‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_TESS 6 мин. назад

Starting Sunday April 15, several live events from @NASA will cover the upcoming @NASA_TESS launch. Want to learn more about #TESS before launch? Visit: https://www.nasa.gov/live/  and tune in!

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dfln пишет:
от души, Спасибо!

Всегда пожалуйста!

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https://www.nasa.gov/content/tess-prelaunch-briefings-and-events

TESS Prelaunch Briefings and Events

NASA and SpaceX are targeting the launch of NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida for no earlier than 6:32 p.m. EDT Monday, April 16.

Mission coverage will begin on NASA Television and the agency's website Sunday, April 15 with three live briefings.

TESS is the next step in the search for planets outside of our solar system. The mission will find exoplanets that periodically block part of the light from their host stars, events called transits. TESS will survey the nearest and brightest stars for two years to search for transiting exoplanets.

L-1 Day (Sunday, April 15)

Briefings on NASA TV

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• 11 a.m. – NASA Social Mission Overview
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• Martin Still, TESS Program Scientist, NASA Headquarters
• Tom Barclay, TESS scientist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
• Jenn Burt, Torres Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Zach Berta-Thompson, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
• Natalia Guerrero, TESS Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Robert Lockwood, TESS Spacecraft Program Manager, Orbital ATK
• Hans Koenigsmann, Vice President of Build and Flight Reliability at SpaceX
• Jessie Christiansen, Staff scientist, NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, California Institute of Technology
• Elisa Quintana, TESS scientist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
  

[/SPOILER][/li][li]1 p.m. – Prelaunch news conference

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• Sandra Connelly, deputy associate administrator of programs, NASA's Science Mission Directorate
• Omar Baez, launch director, NASA's Launch Services Program
• Jeff Volosin, TESS project manager, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
• Mike McAleenan, weather officer, 45th Weather Squadron
• Robert Lockwood, TESS Spacecraft Program Manager, Orbital ATK
• Hans Koenigsmann, Vice President of Build and Flight Reliability at SpaceX
  

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[/li][li]3 p.m. – Science news conference

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• Paul Hertz, Astrophysics Division Director, NASA Headquarters
• George Ricker, TESS principal investigator, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Padi Boyd, TESS Guest Investigator Program Lead, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
• Stephen Rinehart, TESS Project Scientist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
• Diana Dragomir, NASA Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  

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[/li][/LIST]L-0 Day (Monday, April 16)

News Media Schedule

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• 6 p.m. – Launch Coverage Begins
• 6:32 p.m. – TESS Launch
  

NASA Web Prelaunch and Launch Coverage

Prelaunch and launch day coverage of TESS will be available on the NASA website. Coverage will include live streaming and blog updates beginning at 6 p.m. as the countdown milestones occur.

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NOTMAR (#51)

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TESS: Countdown to T-Zero – Episode 1: Keep It Clean

NASAKennedy

Опубликовано: 14 апр. 2018 г.

NASA's TESS spacecraft is about to embark on a daring mission to hunt for planets outside our solar system. TESS stands for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. In this episode, the spacecraft arrives in Florida and begins a final round of critical prelaunch testing before it's ready to fly.

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Прогноз погоды L-1 

Falcon 9 TESS L-1 Day Forecast

80% GO 
Резервный день: ↑ > 90%

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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-television-to-air-launch-of-next-planet-hunting-mission

April 11, 2018
MEDIA ADVISORY M18-059

NASA Television to Air Launch of Next Planet-Hunting Mission

On a mission to detect planets outside of our solar system, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is scheduled to launch no earlier than 6:32 p.m. EDT Monday, April 16. Prelaunch mission coverage will begin on NASA Television and the agency's website Sunday, April 15, with three live briefings.

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TESS is NASA's next step in the search for planets outside of our solar system, known as exoplanets, including those that could support life. The mission is expected to catalog thousands of planet candidates and vastly increase the current number of known exoplanets. TESS will find the most promising exoplanets orbiting relatively nearby stars, giving future researchers a rich set of new targets for more comprehensive follow-up studies, including the potential to assess their capacity to harbor life.

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NASA TV coverage is as follows:

Sunday, April 15

11 a.m. – NASA Social Mission Overview

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• Martin Still, TESS program scientist at NASA Headquarters
• Tom Barclay, TESS scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
• Jenn Burt, Torres postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Zach Berta-Thompson, assistant professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder
• Natalia Guerrero, TESS researcher at MIT
• Robert Lockwood, TESS spacecraft program manager with Orbital ATK
• Hans Koenigsmann, vice president of Build and Flight Reliability at SpaceX
• Jessie Christiansen, staff scientist with the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech
• Elisa Quintana, TESS scientist at Goddard
  

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1 p.m. – Prelaunch news conference

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• Sandra Connelly, deputy associate administrator of programs for NASA's Science Mission Directorate
• Omar Baez, launch director for NASA's Launch Services Program
• Jeff Volosin, TESS project manager at Goddard
• Mike McAleenan, weather officer with the U.S. Air Force 45th Weather Squadron
• Robert Lockwood
• Hans Koenigsmann
  

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3 p.m. – Science news conference

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• Paul Hertz, Astrophysics division director at NASA Headquarters
• George Ricker, TESS principal investigator at MIT
• Padi Boyd, TESS Guest Investigator Program lead at Goddard
• Stephen Rinehart, TESS project scientist at Goddard
• Diana Dragomir, NASA Hubble postdoctoral fellow at MIT
  

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Monday, April 16

10 a.m. – NASA EDGE: TESS     

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• This half-hour live show will discuss the TESS spacecraft, the science of searching for planets outside our solar system, and the launch from Cape Canaveral.
  

6 p.m. – Launch coverage begins

6:32 p.m. – Launch

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TESS will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The deadline for media accreditation for this launch has passed. For information about media accreditation, contact ksc-media-accreditat@mail.nasa.gov.

For the latest schedule of prelaunch briefings, events and NASA TV coverage, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/content/tess-prelaunch-briefings-and-events

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Last Updated: April 13, 2018
Editor: Karen Northon

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