Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is responsible for project management and engineering for Pandora.
NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley will handle data processing for the Pandora mission.
The next expected milestone for Pandora is confirmation of signal acquisition.
Blue Canyon Technologies provided the spacecraft bus for Pandora and is conducting assembly, integration, and environmental testing.
The mission of Pandora aims to improve the understanding of exoplanetary atmospheres by reducing uncertainties related to stellar activity.
Pandora will observe known systems to contribute to the understanding of exoplanet physical properties.
Pandora is NASA's newest exoplanet explorer.
NASA adds the Pandora telescope to its portfolio of missions dedicated to the study of exoplanets.
Pandora will undergo a month of commissioning before starting its one-year prime mission.
The successful separation of the Pandora satellite from SpaceX's second stage was confirmed by NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
NASA's Pandora telescope has successfully entered sun-synchronous orbit.
The successful insertion of the Pandora telescope into orbit represents a key step towards the start of scientific activities.
Pandora, which weighs 325 kilograms, will study at least 20 known exoplanets during its one-year orbital mission using a 45-centimeter wide telescope.
Pandora lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 at 5:44 am PST on January 11 from Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Pandora is designed to study exoplanets and their host stars outside of the Solar System.
In addition to Hydra-2, the SpaceX rocket has launched satellites like NASA's Pandora planet seeker.
The Pandora satellite deployed at approximately 2:27:58 after launch.
NASA's Pandora space telescope satellite is in sun-synchronous orbit.
The launch window for Pandora opens at 5:19 am PST (8:19 am EST).
Pandora will determine if the planets' atmospheres contain hazes, clouds, or water.