Amber Biology shares NASA Silver Achievement Award for its work as part of the TESS mission team
We’re excited to announce that as members of the TESS mission team, Amber Biology principals Gordon Webster and Alex Lancaster recently received the Silver Achievement Award from NASA! NASA awarded the Silver Achievement Award to the entire Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) team. The TESS satellite launched from the Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral on April 18th 2018. and has been performing stellar exoplanet science since, as it continues in it’s orbit around the solar system collecting more exoplanet data.
Getting to work for NASA was an incredible boost for Amber Biology. We worked as part of the TESS team to help build some of the custom scientific analysis and planetary report Python pipelines and other algorithms involved in the mission science, and it’s exciting to see all the hard work pay off for the whole 200+ team. We also had the honour of having our signatures included on the mission plaque that is bolted to the spacecraft (see above).