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TESS Mission

completedLaunch 2018-038
Launched 4/18/2018HEOService CXSat DSO E
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Payloads
Assets deployed on this mission, enriched from spacecraft records.
1 payload
TESS
active
Science Exploration
HEO
Launch Details
Launch Date
4/18/2018
Launch ID
2018-038
Launch Profile
Sat DSO E
Service Type
CX
Customer Type
G
Orbit
HEO
Launch Stack
Operator
SpaceX
Launch Vehicle
Falcon 9 FT4
Launch Site
Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral (Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida)US
Payload Summary
Payload Count
1
Payload Status
active 1
Payload Mission Types
Science Exploration 1
Track
Mentions
4
All verified mentions of this mission in source documents.

Bouma, Andrew Boyle, and Andrew Mann from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill combined data from NASA's TESS mission, ESA's Gaia spacecraft, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS).

GeneralValue 3.0Nov 13, 2025The Pleiades is part of an enormous stellar complex birthed by the same star-forming event

NASA's TESS mission detected light from both black holes in OJ287.

GeneralCapabilityValue 2.5Oct 14, 2025First image captures two black holes in mutual orbit at quasar OJ287

NASA's TESS mission provides large datasets crucial for studying comets, asteroids, and interstellar objects.

GeneralValue 2.0Sep 20, 2025What 3I/ATLAS tells us about other solar systems

An extended TESS mission lasting a little more than two years from mid-2020 to late 2022 is planned to revisit some areas observed in the prime mission and fill in gaps not observed.

PlanGeneralValue 4.0Jan 7, 2019Scientists pleased with TESS exoplanet mission