After completing commissioning and initiating science data collection on July 25th, NASA’s newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, has now completed its first two 27-day science observation sectors and has begun delivering its wealth of data to the ground. The TESS data are being passed through the …

A Special Session "TESS: Early Results and Future Plans” is scheduled for Tuesday, 8 January, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM at the winter AAS meeting in Seattle, WA.

The deadline for regular abstract submission of the 233rd AAS meeting to Wednesday, 10 October (9:00 pm ET). The session …

TESS successfully completed a lunar flyby on 17 May at 06:34:35 UTC (2:34 AM EST). At its closest approach, TESS was 8,253 km from the lunar surface. Based on the successful lunar flyby, no adjustment burn was required. The next maneuver is the Period Adjust Maneuver …

TESS simulated data is now available to the public at the MAST's TESS data page. There you will find information on the data products, how the data products were created, and how to access the data.

The simulated data, called ETE-6 (End-To-End 6) was created by TESS team members from …

TESS has been transported from Orbital ATK in Dulles, VA, to Kennedy Space Center where it will be prepped for launch. Over the next month, the spacecraft will be prepped for launch at Kennedy’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility.

Launch will be on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape …