The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a planned space telescope for NASA's Small Explorer program, designed to search for extrasolar planets using the transit method. Led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with seed funding from Google, TESS was one of 11 proposals selected for NASA funding in September 2011, down from the original 22 submitted in February of that year. On April 5, 2013, it was announced that TESS, along with the Neutron star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER), had been selected for launch in 2017.
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