TESS Akhirnya Kembali Buru Exoplanet Setelah Alami Reset Program

Image Credit: Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) / dock. NASA

JAKARTA - Earlier this week the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) entered a safe mode suddenly, and now the NASA tool has resumed its operations to hunt down exoplanets.

On October 12, when a satellite computer suddenly ran into trouble, a number of observations had to be postponed by NASA.

The space plane is in a stable configuration delaying science observations. Preliminary investigation revealed that flight computer TESS was reset, NASA wrote in a notification at the time.

The TESS operating team reports that science data that has not been sent ashore (Earth) appears to be stored safely on the satellite. Recovery and investigation procedures are underway to resume normal operations, which could take several days," he continued.

It didn't take long, NASA's team that oversaw TESS then restarted the spacecraft, and TESS re-directed its own position.

Meanwhile, the newly collected data by TESS appears safe and will soon be downloaded by the space agency. Despite recovering, NASA does not yet know why the spacecraft is entering safe mode, but teams at NASA will soon investigate to avoid upcoming problems.

Launching Digital Trends, Sunday, October 16, TESS was launched in 2018 and orbited around Earth in an elliptical orbit allowing it to see the sky of the northern and southern hemispheres.

TESS uses transit methods to detect exoplanets. Because exoplanets are relatively small and very distant, they are generally not directly imaged. In contrast, their presence is inferred by its effects on their host stars.

By detecting these transit events, TESS was able to identify new exoplanets. TESS has discovered more than 5,000 exoplanet candidates on its mission so far, lasting more than four years.

Some of the planets or planet candidates TESS has found include planets that have only lasted eight hours, some potentially habitable planets, and strange planets that should have been swallowed up by their stars.