George Ricker – Spaceflight Now

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Q&A with George Ricker, principal investigator for the TESS mission (members only)

April 14, 2018 Stephen Clark

George Ricker, an astronomer and pioneer in space imaging sensor ships at MIT, leads the science team for NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.