James Webb's New Friend

When they Launched the James Webb Space telescope it had a priority problem. It can only look at a very tiny fraction of the sky at a time and it is difficult to choose what places are more important than others. 

For this reason they sent up the Pandora Space Telescope, it will mostly look at stars when one of their planets transitions between the star and us. The probe will try to separate  the light from the planets atmosphere and the star and detect if there is something interesting there like clouds or oxygen. If the probe finds something interesting then the James Webb space telescope will take over and have a closer look.

The pandora probe is very small, about the size of a washing machine and the rocket bay that took it up had extra space so they added two other small cube satellites, sparks and balckcat, they're about the size of a serial box and would fit in a shopping bag. 

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