T.e.s.s.

[bornagainathiest]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transiting_Exoplanet_Survey_Satellite

 

Thanks,

 

BAA

[stryper]

wait.....why are we storing the data for only 3months and how is data of interest determined....and we are storing the data on a spacecraft, in interplanetary space, where all kinds of crap could go wrong. 

 

 

I gotta say.  I am questioning the logic used in the planning. 

[midniterider]

wait.....why are we storing the data for only 3months and how is data of interest determined....and we are storing the data on a spacecraft, in interplanetary space, where all kinds of crap could go wrong. 

 

 

I gotta say.  I am questioning the logic used in the planning. 

 

The NSA determines 'data of interest.' :-)

[bornagainathiest]

wait.....why are we storing the data for only 3months and how is data of interest determined....and we are storing the data on a spacecraft, in interplanetary space, where all kinds of crap could go wrong. 

 

 

I gotta say.  I am questioning the logic used in the planning. 

 

  Yeah, I wondered 'bout that too, Stryper....??

 

Crap like...Cosmic rays?  Micrometeorites?  Interplanetary dust?  Solar flares?  Various bits of man-made space junk left in Earth orbit?  This link... 

 

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/nasa-selects-tess-for-mission-0405.html

 

...confuses me even more!   Why bother storing data onboard, if you're also going to be transmitting terabits of it back home every two weeks?

 

 

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Hey Midnite!

 

That's NASA, not NSA, ok?  

 

BAA

[stryper]

well the first link was to wikipedia....so...it may not be....eeennnntirely accurate. 

[ContraBardus]

 

Hey Midnite!

 

That's NASA, not NSA, ok?  

 

BAA

 

 

 

Are you sure about that?