Computer Reset Puts NASA’s TESS Planet Search On Hold

Artist's concept of TESS.

Credit: NASA
HOUSTON—NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)—launched nearly 4 1/2 years ago to search for extrasolar planets—has suspended science operations in response to a suspected flight computer reset, a mission status update says. The update notes that data not yet transmitted to Earth...

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