NASA History Community:
Below and attached is information about an exciting talk next week. Please feel free to share with others who may be interested. Thanks,
Steve
NASA History Talk: Five Years of TESS
Time/Date/Location: noon – 1
pm ET, Wednesday 11 October, virtual via MS
Teams link (no prior registration necessary)
Contact:
Steve Garber (stephen.j.garber@nasa.gov)
Description:
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is NASA's ongoing mission to discover planets outside the solar system, and more
generally, to explore the bright and time-variable sky. TESS uses four 10cm optical telescopes to perform precise time-series photometry over wide fields of view. In the five years since it was launched, TESS has covered nearly the entire sky, leading to the
confirmation of 330 new planets and the identification of about 6000 planet candidates that are being followed up by ground-based observers. Dr. Joshua Winn, a physicist and astronomer at Princeton University, will describe the history of TESS since its inception
in 2006, and the most important and interesting results that have been achieved thus far.
Stephen Garber
(he/him)
NASA History Division
Office of Communications
NASA Headquarters
Mary W. Jackson Building, Room 5P25
Washington, DC 20546
202-358-0385
