![]() TESS is the next step in NASA’s search for planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets. Over the next month, the spacecraft will be prepped for launch at Kennedy’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF). 12 aboard a truck from Orbital ATK in Dulles, Virginia, where it spent 2017 being assembled and tested. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station nearby NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than April 16, pending range approval. ![]() ![]() ![]() NASA’s next planet-hunting mission has arrived in Florida to begin preparations for launch.
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