<h3><em>New!</em>&nbsp;Yaffs in space!</h3>

<p><strong><img alt="Tess satellite" data-align="right" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="33869d52-09b8-4f75-944b-3835613d8cf3" height="267" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/tess_satellite_0.jpg" width="377" />NASA TESS Mission&nbsp;</strong>This&nbsp;<strong>Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)</strong>&nbsp;will discover thousands of exoplanets in orbit around the brightest stars in the sky.</p>

<p>It is a project regularly using our Yaffs File System to store incoming data and preserve it, in the rigours of the space environment, before sending it back to Earth.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>Some File Systems are not robust enough to be suitable for such exacting work.<br />
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