Mission: The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is an full sky mapping Explorer-class mission, dedicated to finding planets around bright, nearby stars so that more detailed follow-up studies can be done. specification The detector assembly in each camera consists of a focal plane CCD array and associated electronics. Each CCD array contains four back-illuminated MIT/Lincoln Laboratory CCID-80 devices. The 100um deep-depletion, frame-transfer CCDs consist of a 2048 x 2048 imaging array and a 2048 x 2048 frame-store region (for rapid shutter-less readout 4 ms) with 15 x 15 micron pixels. The four CCDs in each array are separated by 2mm and create an effective 4096 x 4096 pixel detector that is operated at -75 degrees C to reduce dark current. The detectors are read out at 625 kHz with <10 e- read noise. The detector electronics consist of two compact double-sided printed circuit boards seated beneath the CCD focal plan...