Planet Searching Telescope

The Planet Searching Telescope (PST) is a space observatory designed by, built by, and launched by the Animus Space Program Organization to search for exoplanets in nearby star systems. The spacecraft was launched on June 12th, 2018 aboard United Launch Alliance's Vulcan NGLS booster.

PST was designed to survey the Orion Spur and Perseus Arm for stellar systems that could potentially have planets, similar to the Kepler Spacecraft's mission objective, but with enhanced optics and instruments. Like the Kepler spacecraft, PST has a photometer, but it also has several instruments aboard, such as a telescope with the capability of the Hubble, several university experiments, and 1 experiment from NASA to study the effects of the Sun's radiation on the spacecraft. The spacecraft has found over 10,000 stellar systems with 1-2 planets orbiting them, and about 5,000 with more. One of those, the ADP-291 system, is the primary objective and target for Project Interstellar.