Future exoplanet missions like NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), and European Space Agency's CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS) and PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO - 2.0) missions will bring in even more data than Kepler and help us fill out the ranks of small habitable zone planets. (sen.com)
These observations represent a natural stepping stone from the K2 mission to NASA's other upcoming exoplanet missions such as the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and James Webb Space Telescope. (astronomynow.com)
Still, it is hard to understand why Kepler and the other exoplanet missions were not given the highest priority. (discovermagazine.com)