There have been a few changes to TESS team at Goddard Space Flight Center. Padi Boyd has replaced Stephen Rinehart as TESS Project Scientist. Stephen has taken up a detail at NASA HQ. Elisa Quintana will be replacing Padi as TESS Deputy Project Scientist. Tom Barclay and Knicole Colón will …

TESS successfully completed the first downlink of science data on August 8. The data was transmitted via the NASA Deep Space Network. The full orbit work of data took took 1.25 hours to dump 53GB of data. TESS will now complete a second orbit targeting the same field as …

A preliminary list of targets Sector 1 targets that were requested and observed through the TESS Guest Investigator program is now available. Additionally, estimated dates for future sectors, and targets for those sectors is available on the status page.

We have also updated the TESS web tool to now give …

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has started its search for planets around nearby stars, officially beginning science operations on July 25, 2018. TESS is expected to transmit its first series of science data back to Earth in August, and thereafter periodically every 13.5 days, once per orbit, as …

TESS is making it's way through the phasing orbits, onward to the lunar flyby on May 18. Papers describing the peculiarities and intricacies of the orbit are available in papers from 2014 and 2016 on our documentation page.

While in the final science orbit, TESS, like anybody in a three-body …