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Solar-like oscillations are excited in cool stars with convective envelopes, and provide a powerful tool to constrain fundamental stellar properties and interior physics. We provide a brief history of the detection of solar-like oscillations, focussing in particular on the space-based photometry revolution started by the CoRoT and Kepler Missions. We discuss some of the lessons learned from those missions, and highlight the continued importance of smaller space telescopes such as the BRITE Constellation to characterize very bright stars with independent observational constraints. As an example, we use BRITE observations to measure a tentative surface rotation period of $28.3 \pm 0.5$ days for $\alpha$\,Cen\,A, which has so far been only poorly constrained. We also discuss the expected yields of solar-like oscillators from the TESS Mission, demonstrating that TESS will complement Kepler by discovering oscillations in a large number of nearby subgiants, and we present first detections of oscillations in TESS exoplanet host stars.
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