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TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)

    Launch Weather 80 Percent ‘Go’ for Monday

    Meteorologists with the U.S. Air Force 45th Space Wing continue to predict an 80 percent chance of favorable weather for liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Launch is scheduled for April 16 at 6:32 p.m. EDT on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, from Space Launch Complex 40 …

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    TESS Briefings and Events Scheduled for Sunday, April 15

    Artist concept of TESS in front of a lava planet orbiting its host star.

    NASA's TESS satellite is scheduled to launch Monday, April 16, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, on an ambitious mission to search for planets outside our solar system. Tune in Sunday for a series of briefings and events broadcast live on NASA TV. Catch the NASA Social Mission Overview at 11 a.m., a prelaunch news …

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    NASA, SpaceX Prepare to Launch Planet-hunting Spacecraft

    The payload fairing for NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is being moved to the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Inside the facility, TESS will be encapsulated in the payload fairing.

    NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, is making strides toward its upcoming liftoff. The planet-hunting spacecraft is slated to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 on Monday, April 16, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Inside Kennedy Space Center's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the TESS spacecraft was sealed within …

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    Solar Panels Opened on NASA’s TESS Satellite

    Solar panels are deployed on NASA's TESS satellite in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at Kennedy Space Center.

    Technicians dressed in clean room suits check the solar panels, which were deployed, on NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Inside the PHSF, the satellite is being processed and prepared for its flight. TESS is scheduled to launch April 16, …

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