Satellite
TESS
NASA’s planet hunter: since 2018 it watches the brightness of 200,000 nearby stars for the tiny dips caused by planets passing in front of them.
- Catalogue name
- TESS
- NORAD ID
- 43435
- Owner
- United States
- Launched
- April 18, 2018
- Altitude (perigee – apogee)
- 119,101 – 364,462 km
- Orbital period
- 20,504 min
- Inclination
- 56.2°