Talk:Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

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Nearest?
How does NASA quantify "nearest" in this case? Kortoso (talk) 17:53, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
 * According to the TESS mission objectives nearby stars are defined as though within 200 light years
 * https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/tess/objectives.html Swsn26 (talk) 02:08, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

No mention at all of asteroseismology
The whole article does not even mention asteroseismology, which is one of the two key scientific objectives of TESS (second after exoplanets). This should be fixed because the article in its current state suggests that TESS was exclusively about exoplanets, which is not true. 16 June 2015 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.3.214.141 (talk) 23:11, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Dear IP editor, Someone added a mention of asteroseismology. Geraldshields11 (talk) 14:23, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Launch date
Launch date is 2017 per home page of the official site, but also on the official site here it is 2018. One must be wrong. --Михаило Јовановић (talk) 18:44, 11 May 2016 (UTC)


 * The link you provided is for the Cheops missions, not the TESS mission. They are different.  TESS is scheduled to launch in 2017 and Cheops in 2018. Martin Cash (talk) 15:34, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

OMG, I was looking at both articles and I must have switched them. Sorry, my bad :) --Михаило Јовановић (talk) 16:49, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

suprasynchronous ?
Is this a typo?: "The second stage will release the 362 kg spacecraft into a suprasynchronous transfer orbit" Should it be supersynchronous? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tony873004 (talk • contribs) 01:17, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

What discussion of risk of reaction wheel failure and ways to mitigate
- Rod57 (talk) 18:09, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Is it using the same type of reaction wheels as Kepler ? shows one made for TESS in 2015 and supplied by Orbital AKT;
 * How many does it need to continue the mission (3 according to )?

Transit - link or explain
I noticed that the transit method is linked, but I think this article could benefit greatly by explaining what a transiting planet and the transit method are. Cheers, --BatteryIncluded (talk) 01:36, 22 March 2018 (UTC)


 * The current links seem adequate. No need to duplicate the explanations here surely. - Rod57 (talk) 01:13, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Kudos
Kudos to all the editors who put in the latest information on 2018-04-18. I went to the NY Times website to look for news about the launch and was unable to find any. Then I came to Wikipedia and found lots of good stuff. -- Roger Hui (talk) 14:13, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Contradiction?
This seems like a contradiction in terms (is it inside or outside?):


 * The orbit is entirely outside the Van Allen belts to avoid radiation damage to TESS, and most of the orbit is spent far outside the belts.

--Mortense (talk) 12:48, 20 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Outside and far outside are different things. The belts don't have sharp edges, so even "outside" there is some higher radiation level. --mfb (talk) 15:52, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

list of exoplanets
somebody should start a fork for TESS akin to List of exoplanets discovered using the Kepler space telescope. 2601:602:9200:1310:35F3:682B:3465:B463 (talk) 06:42, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

What's happening after mid 2020 now the Northern survey is also finished.
What's happening after mid 2020 now the Northern survey is also finished ? Does it repeat the southern survey with the same exact parameters ? Will mission extensions allow longer period planets to be identified or confirmed ? - Rod57 (talk) 01:05, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * found a source and added Extended mission. Slight changes to prime mission. new targets. - Rod57 (talk) 23:08, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Successrate TESS
As of November 2021 3113 candidate-planets and 171 confirmed planets have been communicated by NASA. In the mission objectives, 20000 new exoplanet findings were expected or at least set as a goal for the mission.

Those 3200+ findings are in stark contrast with the expected 20000 over the whole mission period (which isn't finished yet). I begin to wonder how we must view its success. What are the reasons behind this discrepancy in goals vs actual findings? Is the TESS data hard to analyse? Are there not many science teams analysing these results anymore? Hunting exoplanets is not as hot a topic as it was in the Kepler days, in the science community, could be that most of the TESS-data has yet to be analysed. But could it also be that the expectations were too far off of the reality of this missionyield?

I dunno. Maybe we should comment on this on wiki. The discrepancy leaves the reader of the article with more questions than answers. Grifo (talk) 23:31, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Reflecting or refracting telescopes
Article doesn't say what type of telescope/camera - not even if Reflecting or refracting telescopes. Similar PLATO (spacecraft) will use refracting telescopes/camera ! but why ? - Rod57 (talk) 13:25, 24 January 2022 (UTC)