2013–2020: New Spacefaring Nations and Sample Return
TESS
All-sky transiting-exoplanet survey.
Era 5 of 6 · full record in the catalog
- Launch
- year known only: 2018
- Lead / partner
- United States
- Target
- Earth orbit
- Category
- Exoplanet astronomy
- Status
- Operational
- Vehicle
- unknown
- Mass
- unknown
- Orbit / trajectory
- unknown
Why it happened
TESS flew during 2013–2020: New Spacefaring Nations and Sample Return, as part of United States's work toward earth orbit. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.
The mission
The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: All-sky transiting-exoplanet survey.
Results
All-sky transiting-exoplanet survey.
Related missions
Sources & image credits
- Image credit: NASA · license: public-domain (source, checked 2026-08-23)
- Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
- Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog