Three years on, TESS delivers on discoveries as extended mission continues
Source: NASA Spaceflight
Date Published: 04/18/2021
Three years ago, on April 18, 2018, NASA’s and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, launched successfully into a very high Earth orbit aboard the last new Block 4 Falcon 9 before the current human-rated Block 5 entered service.