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1. TESS

   Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS, Explorer 95 or MIDEX-7) is a space telescope for NASA's Explorer program, designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method in an area 400 times larger than that covered by the Kepler mission. It was launched on 18 April 2018, atop a Falcon 9 launch vehicle and was placed into a highly elliptical 13.70-day orbit around the Earth. The first light image from TESS was taken on 7 August 2018, and released publicly on 17 September 2018.Over the course of the two-year primary mission, TESS was expected to ultimately detect about 1,250 transiting exoplanets orbiting the targeted stars, and an additional 13,000 transiting planets orbiting additional stars in the fields that TESS would observe. As of 5 November 2022, TESS had identified 5,969 candidate exoplanets, of which only 268 had been confirmed and 1720 had been dismissed as false positives. After the end of the primary mission around 4 July 2020, data from the primary mission continue to be searched for planets, while the extended missions continues to acquire additional data. The primary mission objective for TESS was to survey the brightest stars near the Earth for transiting exoplanets over a two-year period.The TESS satellite uses an array of wide-field cameras to perform a survey of 85% of the sky. With TESS, it is possible to study the mass, size, density and orbit of a large cohort of small planets, including a sample of rocky planets in the habitable zones of their host stars. TESS provides prime targets for further characterization by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), as well as other large ground-based and space-based telescopes of the future. While previous sky surveys with ground-based telescopes have mainly detected giant exoplanets and the Kepler space telescope has mostly found planets around distant stars that are too faint for characterization, TESS finds many small planets around the nearest stars in the sky. TESS records the nearest and brightest main sequence stars hosting transiting exoplanets, which are the most favorable targets for detailed investigations. By providing such detailed information about planetary systems with hot Jupiters, TESS makes it possible to better understand the architecture of such systems.TESS uses a novel highly elliptical orbit around the Earth with an apogee approximately at the distance of the Moon and a perigee of 108,000 km (67,000 mi). TESS orbits Earth twice during the time the Moon orbits once, a 2:1 resonance with the Moon. The orbit is expected to remain stable for a minimum of ten years. Led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with seed funding from Google, on 5 April 2013, it was announced that TESS, along with the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), had been selected by NASA for launch.On 18 July 2019, after the first year of operation, the southern portion of the survey was completed, and the northern survey was started. The primary mission ended with the completion of the northern survey on 4 July 2020, which was followed by the first extended mission. The first extended mission concluded in September 2022 and the spacecraft entered its second extended mission which should last for another three years.

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1. Tess

   Tess is a 1979 romance film directed by Roman Polanski, an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles. It tells the story of a strong-willed, young peasant girl who finds out she has title connections by way of her old aristocratic surname and who is raped by her wealthy cousin, whose right to the family title may not be as strong as he claims. The screenplay was by Gérard Brach, John Brownjohn, and Roman Polanski. The film won three Academy Awards and was nominated for three more.

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   Song lyrics by tess -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by tess on the Lyrics.com website.

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   What does TESS stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the TESS acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

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1. TESS

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Tess is ranked #38582 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Tess surname appeared 573 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Tess.
   
   92.5% or 530 total occurrences were White.
   2% or 12 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   2% or 12 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.9% or 11 total occurrences were Black.

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1. sets

How to pronounce tess?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of tess in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of tess in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of tess in a Sentence

1. Diana Dragomir:

   For stars that are very close by and very bright, we expected to find up to a couple dozen Earth-sized planets, and here we are -- this would be our first one, and it's a milestone for TESS. It sets the path for finding smaller planets around even smaller stars, and those planets may potentially be habitable.

2. Lisa Kaltenegger:

   Life could exist on all sorts of worlds, but the kind we know can support life is our own, so it makes sense to first look for Earth-like planets, this catalog is important for TESS because anyone working with the data wants to know around which stars we can find the closest Earth-analogs.

3. Kelly Cowin:

   Everyone in the family had read it and there was something about that article that spoke to me, there’s so much complexity to it: There’s a war element, a love story between Tess and Gil, there’s this idea that, generations later, two girls of these war-torn families can come together to bridge a gap.

4. Paul Hertz:

   TESS was designed and launched specifically to find Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby stars, planets around nearby stars are easiest to follow-up with larger telescopes in space and on Earth. Discovering TOI 700 d is a key science finding for TESS. Confirming the planets size and habitable zone status with Spitzer is another win for Spitzer as it approaches the end of science operations this January.

5. Tessa Majors:

   Our hearts ache as we watch Tess's friends return to school, perform concerts, start new jobs, and experience all the things that our daughter never will. It is hard for many old friends to be around us. Our grief is too profound. We are too changed from the people we used to be.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tess
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=tess
3. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html