NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched in April 2018 to perform an all-sky survey.
TESS completed its two-year primary mission in 2020 and is now in an extended mission.
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched in April 2018 without incident.
NASA’s Launch Services Program was concerned about the possibility that faulty components could be on the Falcon 9 rocket scheduled to launch the TESS spacecraft in April 2018.
Tess Hatch of Bessemer expected a massive market crash in the third or fourth quarter of 2019 and encouraged companies to raise capital in the first half of 2019.
Planning for an extended mission for TESS could be delayed, and proposals for extended missions as part of NASA’s next senior review of astrophysics missions are due to the agency on 2019-02-01.
TESS launched in April 2018 on a SpaceX Falcon 9.
The first downlink of TESS observation data is planned for 2018-08-08.
TESS launched on 2018-04-18 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9.
The first stage used on the 2018-06-29 launch first flew on 2018-04-18 carrying NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).