NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has started its search for planets around nearby stars. /…/ TESS is expected to transmit its first series of science data back to Earth in August, and thereafter periodically every 13.5 days, once per orbit, as the spacecraft makes it closest approach to Earth.
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