Astron

InSight is a robotic lander designed to study the interior of the planet Mars . [10] [11] The mission launched on 5 May 2018 at 11:05  UTC [12] and is expected to land on the surface of Mars at Elysium Planitia on 26 November 2018, [4] [13] where it will deploy a seismometer and burrow a heat probe. It will also perform a radio science experiment to study the internal structure of Mars. [14] The mission is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA. The lander was manufactured by Lockheed Martin Space Systems and was originally planned for launch in March 2016. [11] [15] The name is a backronym for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InSight   GOOG  

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a space telescope for NASA's Explorers program , designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method in an area 400 times larger than that covered by the Kepler mission. It was launched on April 18, 2018 atop a Falcon 9 rocket . Wikipedia The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will discover thousands of exoplanets in orbit around the brightest stars in the sky. In a two-year survey of the solar neighborhood, TESS will monitor more than 200,000 stars for temporary drops in brightness caused by planetary transits. This first-ever spaceborne all-sky transit survey will identify planets ranging from Earth-sized to gas giants, around a wide range of stellar types and orbital distances. No ground-based survey can achieve this feat. NASA GOOG  

Kepler is a retired space observatory launched by NASA to discover Earth-size planets orbiting other stars. Named after astronomer Johannes Kepler , the spacecraft was launched on March 7, 2009, into an Earth-trailing heliocentric orbit. The principal investigator was William J. Borucki. Kepler observed 530,506 stars and discovered 2,662 exoplanets over its lifetime. [15] A newer NASA mission, TESS , launched in 2018, is continuing the search for exoplanets. [43] Wikipedia   After nine years in deep space collecting data that indicate our sky to be filled with billions of hidden planets - more planets even than stars - NASA's Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel needed for further science operations NASA GOOG