The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was launched on April 18 2018 and started taking data on July 25. This satellite is performing an all-sky survey searching for transiting planets around bright stars. This past September the first light curves for objects with transit-like signals were released for TESS Sector 1. In this journal club we will briefly discuss the TESS mission and the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting around Pi Mensae (Huang et al. 2018 submitted, Gandolfi et al. 2018 submitted) and an earth-size planet with a period of 11 hours orbiting around the M dwarf LHS 3844 (Vanderspek et al. 2018 submitted).

Arxiv links:
- Huang et al. 2018: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.05967
- Gandolfi et al. 2018: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07573
- Vanderspek et al. 2018: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07242