TESS Camera Mounting Timelapse

A timelapse of TESS cameras being mounted to the camera plate before installation onto spacecraft.

The four TESS cameras being mounted to the camera plate in preparation for integration to spacecraft at Orbital ATK in Dulles, Va.

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This visualization is related to the following missions:

- TESS Undergoes Integration and Testing
  Feb. 8, 2018, 6 a.m.
  See highlights from the assembly and testing of the TESS spacecraft.Music: s Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is the next step in the search for planets outside of our solar system, including those that could support life. The mission will find exoplanets that periodically block part of the light from their host stars, events called transits. TESS will survey 200,000 of the brightest stars near the sun to search for transiting exoplanets. The mission is scheduled to launch in 2018.
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