This follow on exoplanet detector space mission was not picked for funding.
From Hahvid's website...
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a low cost, SMEX-class planet finder. In a two year all-sky survey, TESS will observe more than two million bright, nearby stars, searching for temporary drops in brightness that are caused by planetary transits, which occur when a planet's orbit carries it directly in front of its parent star. Such transits not only provide the means of identifying the planet, but also provide knowledge of the planet's diameter, mass density, surface gravity, temperature, and other key properties.
TESS is expected to catalog more than 1000 transiting exoplanet candidates--20 times as many as are presently known, including a sample of 'super Earths'. The TESS "wide-shallow" survey will be complementary to the "narrow-deep" ones of the Corot and Kepler missions: its sky coverage will exceed that of Corot by 1000 times, and that of Kepler by 400 times. Because the TESS all-sky survey will systematically examine every interesting bright star likely to harbor an exoplanet, the resulting TESS Transit Catalog will constitute a unique scientific legacy. High resolution, follow-up ground-based optical and space-based IR spectroscopy of exoplanets demands bright targets. Thus, TESS should identify those new exoplanets that are ideal for study with the world's largest ground-based telescopes, as well as with NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope.
RIP TESS
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