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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is an all-sky transit survey, whose principal goal is to detect Earth-sized planets orbiting bright stars that are amenable to follow-up observations to determine planet masses and atmospheric compositions. TESS conducts high-precision photometry of more than 200,000 stars during a two-year mission with a cadence of approximately 2 minutes (and 20 seconds in the extended mission for select targets). These targets will be are read-out as postage stamps and be made available to the community as target pixel files (TPFs) and calibrated light curves. In addition, the full image frame will be are read out approximately every 30 minutes (10 minutes in the extended mission). These Full Frame Images (FFIs) will enable users to conduct photometry on any target within the 24x96 degree field-of-view.  For more information on the data products provided by the TESS mission, see the Data Product Overview section in this Archive Manual.

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