TESS Undergoes Integration and Testing

  • Released Thursday, February 8th, 2018
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:46PM
  • ID: 12843

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 Center

Watch 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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