New NASA Planet Finder TESS To Have Unusual Orbit

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite's (TESS) will orbit the Earth twice "every time the Moon orbits once," according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. -- TESS scheduled to launch on April 16: https://www.space.com/40245-tess-exoplanet-hunter-launch-one-week-away.html

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center