flown missionSuccess
Falcon 9 Block 4 | TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
SpaceXSpace Launch Complex 40 — Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
- Type
- Astrophysics
- Target orbit
- High Earth Orbit (HEO)
- Weather probability
- 90% go
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a NASA space telescope, designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method. TESS will identify planets ranging from Earth-sized to gas giants, orbiting a wide range of stellar types and orbital distances. The principal goal of the TESS mission is to detect small planets with bright host stars in the solar neighborhood, so that detailed characterizations of the planets and their atmospheres can be performed.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 4
- Family
- Falcon
- Variant
- Block 4
- Provider
- SpaceX
- Type
- Commercial
- Country
- USA
webcasts
launch site
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 40
- Location
- Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Country
- USA
- Timezone
- America/New_York
- Coordinates
- 28.5619, -80.5774