Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), space telescope, NASA / MIT, USA

Astrophysicist and planetary scientist from MIT, Sara Seager, discusses the mission of NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and how we will search for new exoplanets and extraterrestrial life.

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NASA’s TESS spacecraft will spend two years searching the sky for nearby alien worlds.

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NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission was launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 18, 2018. -- NASA's TESS Satellite Will Supercharge Search for Nearby, Earth-Like Worlds

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A camera on the Falcon 9 upper stage shows NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, as it separates and is deployed into a highly elliptical orbit. Liftoff took place from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 at 6:51 p.m. EDT. The satellite is a NASA Astrophysics Explorer Mission led and operated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

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SpaceX is targeting launch of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) on Wednesday, April 18 from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The 30-second launch window opens at 6:51 p.m. EDT, or 22:51 UTC. TESS will be deployed into a highly elliptical orbit approximately 48 minutes after launch.

Following stage separation, SpaceX will attempt to land Falcon 9’s first stage on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.

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First Stage Landing on Drone Ship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’

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