TESS TESS launched April 18 at 6:51 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. After a commissioning period TESS started science operation on July 25, 2018. TESS is now executing it's survey, observing one sector at a time, starting in the southern hemisphere. TESS will continue to tile the sky with 27.4 day-long sectors during its 2 year prime mission.
Sector dates
| Sector | Hemisphere | Start | Stop | Data available |
GI target list | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| s001 | South | 2018 Jul 25 | 2018 Aug 22 | 2019 Jan 25 | Download | Data downlinked. |
| s002 | South | 2018 Aug 22 | 2018 Sep 20 | 2019 Jan 25 | Download | Data downlinked |
| s003 | South | 2018 Sep 20 | 2018 Oct 18 | 2019 Jan 25 | Download | Currently being observed. |
| s004 | South | 2018 Oct 18 | 2018 Nov 15 | 2019 Jan 25 | ||
| s005 | South | 2018 Nov 15 | 2018 Dec 11 | 2019 Feb 25 | ||
| s006 | South | 2018 Dec 11 | 2019 Jan 07 | 2019 Mar 25 | ||
| s007 | South | 2019 Jan 07 | 2019 Feb 02 | 2019 Apr 25 | ||
| s008 | South | 2019 Feb 02 | 2019 Feb 28 | 2019 May 25 | ||
| s009 | South | 2019 Feb 28 | 2019 Mar 26 | 2019 Jun 25 | ||
| s010 | South | 2019 Mar 26 | 2019 Apr 22 | 2019 Jul 25 | ||
| s011 | South | 2019 Apr 22 | 2019 May 21 | 2019 Aug 25 | ||
| s012 | South | 2019 May 21 | 2019 Jun 19 | 2019 Sep 25 | ||
| s013 | South | 2019 Jun 19 | 2019 Jul 18 | 2019 Oct 25 |
