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Robert Pearlman
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posted 04-15-2018 09:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is the next step in the search for planets outside of our solar system.
In a two-year survey of the solar neighborhood, TESS will monitor more than 200,000 stars for temporary drops in brightness caused by planetary transits. This first-ever spaceborne all-sky transit survey will identify planets ranging from Earth-sized to gas giants, around a wide range of stellar types and orbital distances.

MIT's logo for its TESS Science Operations Center:

SpaceX's Falcon 9 mission patch for the TESS launch:

Robert Pearlman
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posted 04-16-2018 09:04 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
TESS decals distributed at the press site (via Jacques van Oene).

Robert Pearlman
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posted 04-20-2018 09:43 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Via Bobak Ferdowsi on Instagram, a look at NASA's embroidered TESS patch:

Philip
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posted 04-22-2018 05:29 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Philip   Click Here to Email Philip     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
These oval patches were already available over a year ago as I got a batch to hand out during lectures.

albatron
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posted 04-22-2018 10:08 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for albatron   Click Here to Email albatron     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
They gave them out at the Press Site also - with decals. SpaceX gave out theirs also.

The gift shop was selling a different one.

Liembo
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posted 05-07-2018 11:04 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Liembo   Click Here to Email Liembo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Also spotted, "Launch Team" TESS patch, quoted from the listing:
Was attending a wedding at the Cocoa Beach Hilton on the 18th of April, the day of the launch. The SpaceX scientist and technicians had their post launch party at the hotel. I picked up a few patches from the party.

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