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    TESS Solar Array Deploy

    March 13th, 2018
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    Engineers at the Kennedy Space Center test TESS's solar panels. || NASA's next planet-hunting mission is at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin preparation for launch. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida no earlier than April 16th, 2018. TESS is being prepped for launch at Kennedy's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. TESS is the next step in NASA's search for planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets. ||

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    TESS Arrives at KSC

    March 5th, 2018
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    B-roll compilation. || NASA's next planet-hunting mission has arrived in Florida to begin preparation for launch. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida this spring. TESS was delivered Feb. 12 aboard a truck from Orbital ATK in Dulles, Virginia, where it was assembled and tested in 2017. Over the next month, the spacecraft will be prepped for launch at Kennedy's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. TESS is the next step in NASA's search for planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets. ||

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    TESS Undergoes Integration and Testing

    Feb. 8th, 2018
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    See highlights from the assembly and testing of the TESS spacecraft.Music: "Prototype" and "Trial" both from Killer Tracks.Credit: NASA'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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