Pointing problem left TESS in the dark Good news for planet hunters - NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is back online after a short flirtation with safe mode....

In space, no one can hear you bork NASA has confirmed that its planet hunter, TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), entered safe mode due to a command error that inadvertently left the spacecraft's solar arrays angled away from the Sun....