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TESS - Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
Next up is another telescope - TESS. The folks at the Goddard Space Center mission website should be posting this shortly. I'm still working on a few tweaks to make building easier. Scheduled for launch in 2017, 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 500,000 stars for temporary drops in brightness caused by planetary transits. This first-ever spaceborne 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. TESS stars will be 30-100 times brighter than those surveyed by the Kepler satellite; thus, TESS planets should be far easier to characterize with follow-up observations. These follow-up observations will provide refined measurements of the planet masses, sizes, densities, and atmospheric properties. TESS will provide prime targets for further, more detailed characterization with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), as well as other large ground-based and space-based telescopes of the future. TESS's legacy will be a catalog of the nearest and brightest stars hosting transiting exoplanets, which will comprise the most favorable targets for detailed investigations in the coming decades. For mission info see: TESS - Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Yogi |
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Tess
Quick add - the official TESS graphics I'm trying to replicate. Contact at Goddard noted there will be a few changes - thruster locations biggest one.
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Great to see you back at designing!
Mike |
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Thanks Mike - it comes and goes ...
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Hi Yogi,
I know what that means! Been awhile since I've had the time or desire to do any modeling (building and designing). Best regards, Mike |
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The TESS model is up and posted at the NASA mission website under the News, Multimedia section and on their facebook site. Mission website at TESS Multimedia .
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That's a model for my project list Yogi. I see that the mission site file starts out stating 1/20th scale and then the part's pages reference 1/40th scale. Did you decide to reduce the page count? Do you still have the larger scale modeled?
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Oops. Looks like an error on my title page which propagated to the Goddard post - my bad not theirs. The model was draw at 1:40 for my usual reason. 1 meter = 1 inch (arghhh - mixing units violation!) allowed me to fit the largest parts onto one page. I'll make an edit and ping it back to the NASA folks.
Yogi (no, we're not really space geeks ...) |
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Next one is a follow-on to this (and pushed by the NUSTAR model that still waiting for attention). Anybody??
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Uh... a lovechild of Spitzer and WISE?
No idea, but it looks good! |
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