TESS Adopts Policy to Support Rapid Follow-Up of High-Energy Transients

Allison Youngblood
Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500
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The TESS Project Office announces a new mission policy to enable rapid community follow-up of high-energy transient events occurring in TESS’s field of view while preserving TESS’s tradition of open data with no period of exclusive access.

Under this policy, the mission may extract limited but actionable information …