Mała aktualizacja. W ciągu ostatnich kilku dni kontynuowano sprawdzanie instrumentów i ich kalibrację. Ze względu na dobre parametry zrezygnowano z drugiego uruchomienia silników w apogeum (A2M), natomiast drugie uruchomienie w perygeum (P2M) poszło zgodnie z planem.
.@NASA_TESS Mission Update: Team decided that the second apogee maneuver (Apogee 2 maneuver (A2M)), was not necessary based on the good system performance during the first two maneuvers. Spacecraft subsystems continue to operate nominally.
.@NASA_TESS Mission Update: The four cameras for #TESS are now powered on and will begin collecting data for the calibration process which will last until mid June.
.@NASA_TESS Mission Update: The #TESS team were successful in putting TESS in Fine Pointing Mode (instrument supplying quaternions) for the first time as part of instrument commissioning.
.@NASA_TESS Mission Update: #TESS continued fine pointing data collection for instrument calibration. The #TESS cameras are being slowly cooled to their operating temperature of -80°C.
.@NASA_TESS Mission Update: completed the P2M (Perigee 2 Maneuver), another on orbit burn to place #TESS into its final science orbit, nominally. The instrument is turned off for all maneuvers. While this maneuver is only for 7 secs it puts TESS on target for our lunar encounter.